The Isle of Wight Council is supporting Recycle Now’s national Recycle Week which runs until Friday.
Now in its 20th year, Recycle Week is a celebration of recycling across the nation, encouraging us into recycling more of the right things, more often.
This year’s theme, The Big Recycling Hunt, focuses on ‘missed capture’ – the items that can be recycled but are commonly missed in the home.
These include empty aerosols, food tins, plastic cleaning and toiletry bottles, pots, tubs and trays.
Natasha Dix, the Council’s service director for waste, environment and planning, said:
“We are definitely an Island of recyclers but we can all miss those the items around the house, forgotten in our kitchens, bathrooms, cupboards and bags.
“Our busy lives are full of things we could, and really should, recycle. So, whether you recycle what you can, you’re just trying your best or think you could recycle more, this Recycle Week (and the days that follow), let’s keep an eye out for the things we can recycle and work a little harder to recycle more of them, more often.”
Top tips for recycling:
• Remember to recycle more of these items: aerosols, empty bleach bottles, air fresheners, empty shampoo and conditioner bottles, perfume bottles.
• Rinse your food packaging/bottles/cans in your washing up water and pop in the recycling to prevent contamination.
• Nappies should go in your household (black) waste, as can broken glassware. Just wrap it carefully to avoid the collection crew hurting themselves or dispose of it at your local household waste recovery centre.
Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Cabinet member for waste and recycling, said:
“Recycling plays a crucial role in improving our environment. As we participate in Recycle Week 2023, I encourage all residents to join us.
“By recycling correctly, we can collectively make a positive difference. Let’s work together to create a cleaner and greener Island.”
To find out more about Recycle Week, visit www.recyclenow.org.uk/RecycleWeek
No natasha – you work a little harder, after all, that is why we pay our council tax
you do not get a dog and then bark yourself, do you
How about recycling the council itself.Its a shambles,And chuck that stupid chain ferry in as well.Simple solution to save million’s in our hard earned money, taxes most of us pay.Apart from the Dole brigade spongers.
How about changing that to: “islanders encourage council workers to do some work for a change”.
one bin takes all get the smelly men to sort it before they go home
Cut council tax and i will sort my rubbish if not i will get my money’s worth and let you do it
Well said.
Only an Idiot would recycle.
I pay £2,000.00+ a year, I expect the Numpty’s
who collect the rubbish to sort it.
I don’t go to a restaurant and cook my own meal.
that’s what I pay the chef for.
My bin goes out fortnightly in a black bag my green bin doesn’t get used apart from storage council tax is enough for you to deal with rubbish
It all goes on the same pile and the Council know it.
I have even seen Bin operatives put black bags of rubbish
with white bags of rubbish.
It’s a funny old game
It’s all a scam as most of the recycled and food good get thrown in the land fill.Ask any bin man.
By the way I used to work for Amey on the bins.So I’ve experienced this first hand…
I can confirm this man’s right! It’s all a con!
Correct the council only make out they are doing it correctly so they get the money from the government for recycling
This council couldn’t recycle a sheet of Bog roll!
Correct, it’s just another climate scam like EVs
and people fool for it.
No chance, black bin gets filled and crammed in and jumped on, anything left gets burnt in my back garden, really I should get a council tax rebate??
Not always easy to do the right thing when they keep tipping away the black insert, had 5 in 3 years and given up after the last one got tipped, by the way that one was only 3 weeks old
If they were concerned about the climate why produce
all the damaging plastic bins and inserts.
I thought plastic was wrong!
Another World Lie they are telling us.
Which bin do dead bodies go in again? Got a few piling up, I should recycle??
put the body parts in your next door neighbours bin.
You have my sympathy Mr West. Clearly, Rosemary is not doing her part of the deal again.
Unfortunately while I am
Forced to pay stupidity high
Council tax each month I will not be doing more, bin day is bin day in my house and the only thing that changes is the colour of the bin I put out! All goes in the same bin in my kitchen as for £250’a month what do they expect in the golden towers of country hall?
I think having two bins is a bit confusing for some people
I think having one bin is a bit confusing for some people…..
‘COUNCIL ENCOURAGES ISLANDERS TO ‘WORK A LITTLE HARDER’
I wonder if they see the irony in that statement?
I think the council are great at recycling.
They do the magic trick of turning my £2500 council tax into rubbish…
Let’s hope some people do make more of an effort to recycle correctly. ‘Some’ don’t understand the need to recycle and how it helps to protect the environment. I’m sure ‘some’ don’t even care which shows their ignorance!
I think more people care about the money they have to fork out in high taxes.
Nope I really don’t care what’s so ever, take a look at what’s going on around the world, that fact you have washed out you empty bean can and put it in the right bin isn’t going to make any difference to the hell hole we live in, they just charge more money for it all, it’s all just a con!
It might change it for future genarations