Recycling Upstairs and Down is the chosen theme of Scotland’s Recycle Week 22 – 28 June 2015 – encouraging us to look past the kitchen when recycling around the home.
Studies show that we are great at recycling stuff in the kitchen, but when it comes to the rest of the house, we often forget that an empty bleach bottle is just as recyclable as an empty water bottle. So this Recycle Week, Zero Waste Scotland is calling for us to get recycling all around the house.
This means in the bathroom, recycling things like shampoo bottles, loo rolls, aerosols and the boxes toothpaste comes in; or in the bedroom, recycling the cardboard tags from new clothes and when clothes are too worn out to be re-used, recycling them as well. In the living room, you can recycle newspapers and magazines.
You can see how all this stuff starts to stack up in old rubbish bin, can’t you?
Zero Waste Scotland will be adding a whole range of support materials online very soon, so check www.recycleforscotland.com for a toolkit, posters, guides, template media materials and more.