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How can I Recycle packaging?

Are you recycling as much of your packaging as you can? Turn your packaging into a resource by recycling drinks cans, glass bottles and jars, card boxes and plastic bottles. Recycling reduces the amount of waste that we send to landfill, recovers valuable resources to make new products thus reducing demand on natural resources.

On-pack recycling labels

Leading retailers have joined forces to introduce the labelling system which will mean that you can see, at a glance, which packaging you can recycle by looking at the symbols printed on some product ranges. Many household brands will be using the new labelling system across their ranges as well.

The scheme aims to provide clearer information to the public, clarifying what can and cannot be recycled. Product ranges included in the scheme will feature one or more of three standard symbols showing whether each component of its packaging is ‘widely recycled’, ‘not currently recycled’ or only recycled in some areas, where the instruction is to ‘check local recycling’.

For more information visit the On-Pack Recycling Label Scheme website

What else can I do?

• Buy recycled Remember that by purchasing products packaged using recycled materials, you are helping to create a market for the recycled materials.
  
• Buy Products with recyclable packaging Buy items with packaging that can be recycled and remember to recycle this in your kerbside collection scheme ofr local recycling centre. To find out what you can recycle and where click on In Your Area section of our website.