Recycle Now

Recycle Now is a national campaign to encourage people to recycle even more of their waste.

The campaign is being run by WRAP which stands for the Waste & Resources Action Programme. WRAP is an independent organisation funded by the government.

Babergh District Council is supporting the campaign and you will see the logo on our literature.

As part of this campaign we have teamed up with the other Suffolk councils to run a partnership campaign "Recycle for Suffolk".

This campaign is to raise awareness and participation in recycling locally and has involved a team visiting homes in the district to offer advice and information, recycling roadshows throughout the district and presentations on all aspects of recycling.

Did you know:

• UK households recycled around a third of all their packaging in 2004 – an increase from around a quarter in 2002.

• Approximately 3.5 billion glass bottles and jars, 1 billion plastic bottles, 2 billion aluminium cans and 2.5 billion steel cans were recycled by UK households in 2004. This is a total weight, including cardboard containers, of 1,253,000 tonnes of material.

• Recycling in UK business (offices and industry) is also up. In 2004, industry used 5.6 million tonnes of packaging – 66 per cent of which was recycled. This is an increase of seven per cent on 2002.

• Almost half of all the packaging used in the UK is recycled.

• Recycling is getting more convenient. Almost every council in the UK now provides some form of service for doorstep collection of recyclable or compostable materials.

• Nine out of 10 people regard recycling as an important thing to do, and 50 per cent are classed as committed recyclers.

For more information on the Recycle Now campaign go to: www.recyclenow.com