Now in its twenty second year, Recycle Week is the nation’s biggest annual celebration of recycling.

This Recycle Week, which is running from 22 – 28 September, Recycle Now and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council are proud to support the Rescue Me! Recycle campaign.

The campaign continues to shine a spotlight on missed capture items that too often end up in the rubbish bin but can, and should, be recycled.

Following the success of last year’s campaign, Rescue Me! Recycle returns with two new characters joining the recycling mission:

  • Shampoo and shower gel bottles
  • Foil trays

The above two items join the list from last year:

  • Trigger sprays
  • Aerosols
  • Yoghurt pots
  • Aftershave and perfume bottles
  • Toilet roll tubes

Here in Causeway Coast and Glens, Council is putting missed capture items front and centre.

Top tips for recycling in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough:

  • Recycle more of these items: shampoo bottles, shower gel bottles and foil trays
  • Make sure you recycle these items: cleaning product bottles, aerosols, yoghurt pots, aftershave and perfume bottles, toilet roll tubes, plastic toiletry bottles and food tins.

Catherine David, CEO, WRAP commented: “Recycle Week continues to be a powerful moment to inspire action across the UK, and this year’s ‘Rescue Me! Recycle’ campaign is no exception. By highlighting everyday items like shampoo/shower gel bottles and foil trays – things we often overlook – we’re helping people see the real impact of small changes.

“Thanks to innovation and collaboration, more of these items can now be recycled than ever before. Together with local authorities and communities, we’re making it easier to do the right thing and keep valuable materials in use. Let’s rescue these items from the rubbish and give them a second life.

“Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is making great strides in recycling. By rescuing those missed items, we can make our recycling efforts even more impactful. Let’s keep up the great work and make our borough’s recycling better than ever before!”

Recycling doesn’t have to be confusing.

To find out more about Recycle Week visit: www.recyclenow.com/RecycleWeek


About Recycle Week:

First staged in 2004, Recycle Week is now the UK’s largest national annual recycling campaign. It’s a week where citizens, media, local governments, and brands come together to meet one goal; to galvanise everyone into recycling more of the right things, more often. www.recyclenow.com/RecycleWeek

About Recycle Now:

For more than twenty years, Recycle Now has encouraged and motivated citizens to recycle more things, more often, from around the home. Using ground-breaking research and behaviour change science, we develop interventions and campaigns to motivate citizens to change their behaviour. Recycle Now is the citizen facing recycling campaign of climate action NGO WRAP.