Now in its eighteenth year, Recycle Week (17-23 October) is the nation’s biggest celebration of recycling. This Recycle Week, Recycle Now and Havant Borough Council are ‘getting real’, about how we can all tackle recycling together.
This year it’s about to ‘Get Real’. This year’s campaign will focus on the difference that recycling makes.
Recycling from your home is one of the simplest and easiest ways you can help protect the environment, but we must get it right.
All households throughout Hampshire can recycle the same five items - paper, card, cans, tins, and plastic bottles. These items need to be clean, dry and loose in your recycling bin.
Councillor Lulu Bowerman, Cabinet lead for Environmental Services, said: “I encourage everyone, especially during Recycling Week, to look at what they are throwing in their recycling and make sure it’s the right item. One wrong item in the recycling bin from each of us can make whole lorry loads unrecyclable. Recycling doesn’t have to be confusing - if in doubt, check our website or just leave it out."
Recycling tips
Here are some of the most common items you can recycle from each room in your home. Please remember to empty, rinse and flatten before you recycle.
Bathroom: toothpaste boxes, toilet roll tubes, plastic shampoo and conditioner bottles including lids/tops, shower gel containers including lids/tops, liquid soap bottles (remove pump dispenser), bleach bottles, bathroom cleaners.
Bedroom: empty tissue boxes, magazines, empty deodorant aerosols and hairspray.
Living room: envelopes, newspapers, cardboard packaging from online shopping.
Kitchen: plastic drinks bottles, washing-up liquid bottles, surface cleaner bottles, soap powder/washing liquid and conditioner bottles, aerosols tins of furniture polish and air fresheners.
Watch the recycling around your home video here.
Batteries - Set aside a box for “dead” batteries. Once it’s full, take it to your Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) or battery recycling point. More information about your local recycling points can be found at the battery bank recycling point finder.