Doncaster Council joins Recycle Week 2024

Now in its twenty-first year, Recycle Week (organised by Recycle Now) is the UK’s biggest celebration of recycling. For Recycle Week 2024, we are joining the campaign to raise awareness of five types of packaging that are often thrown away to encourage residents to put them in the correct recycling bin

The latest Recycle Now research shows that while nine out of ten people regularly recycle – nearly eight out of ten of us (79%) put one or more items into the bin that could have been recycled.

Regularly thrown away items that can be recycled are aerosol cans, perfume bottles and toilet roll tubes, and we will be highlighting these items alongside general recycling tips and tricks throughout Recycle Week.

Cllr Mark Houlbrook (above) - Chair of the Joint Waste Board in South Yorkshire - said: “We are pleased that so many people in our area are already committed to recycling their waste. We want to help everyone maximise their recycling efforts and are delighted support this year’s Recycle Week campaign.

“Recycling is important as it means valuable materials can be recaptured - recycled - and used again. It reduces the need to extract oil (for plastic) or metal from the Earth.”

For more information on what can and can’t be recycled, visit our website.