Recycling is top of the class
To celebrate the launch of Recycle Week 2008 (June 2nd-6th) school pupils in Gloucestershire have recreated the famous recycling symbol - the swoosh.
The theme of Recycle Week (June 2nd-6th) is to recycle “just one more thing”. To mark the start of Recycle Week, pupils at Longlevens Junior School in Gloucester replicated the symbol associated with recycling. The school has already developed their own “Eco” garden.
Recycle Week aims to encourage everyone to recycle “Just one more thing”. Some items are recycled more than others. For example only around 30 per cent of clear glass containers are recycled compared to 60 per cent for green and brown glass.
In Gloucestershire, you can put all of these types of glass in your recycling box, as part of the door to door collection scheme. Only around one fifth of plastic bottles are recycled. However in Gloucestershire you can take them to your nearest Recycling Bank.
If you live in the Stroud district, put them in your recycling box and they will be collected. In Gloucester, as part of their door to door collection scheme, they accept just plastic milk bottles. In Gloucester alone, 130 liquid food and drinks cartons (Tetra Pak) are used in every household annually. That equates to 6 million across the city.
Did you know you can now take these items to Hempsted Household Recycling Centre in Gloucester. Also throughout Gloucestershire, many Recycling Banks accept Tetra Paks. Please ensure that the cartons are squashed, so more of them fit in the banks.
Once collected they will be recycled into a number of different products ranging from plasterboard to high strength paper bags and envelopes.