• Recycle Week 2009

  Filed under campaigns, waste
  Jun 20

  

  Recycle Week 2009 starts on Monday 22nd June. This year’s theme is ‘Let’s waste less’ and you can make a pledge at http://www.recyclenow.com/. It wasn’t hard for me to pick my pledge as I already do all of them except one: I pledge to go waste free for a day, or I will cook all the dinners for a week!  I’m not quite sure how I’m going to achieve it, and I haven’t got long to get ready, but I’ll do my best!  I think I will have to make at least one exception, which is cat litter, although I am looking into a flushable alternative.

  Several eco bloggers are getting involved and have set themselves special challenges.   For example, The Rubbish Diet, who I read regularly, is such an expert waste reducer that she is going to be helping other people in her community waste less.  For one week in 2008 she managed to throw away just one plaster.  One plaster!  In a whole week!  And she has a family!!!  Read more about her and the other bloggers at http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle_week/blogger_challenge.html.

  If you haven’t already, why not mosey on over to http://www.recyclenow.com/ and make a pledge.  You don’t have to go the whole waste free hog like me, there are several options including reusing carrier bags, taking leftovers for lunch, and recycling newspapers and magazines.  Let me know what your pledge is!

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  1. My Waste Free Day for WRAP’s Recycle Week
  2. National Vegetarian Week
  3. Green Shopping: Buy Less Stuff
  4. Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change
  5. Gardening Review of the Year 2009
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3 Responses to “Recycle Week 2009”

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   EcoCampion said on June 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

   In support of recycle week the teams at http://www.BemoreEco.com and http://www.MoreEcoco.uk will be blogging their recycling exploits each day so please visit are recycling page to see what we have been up to during the week.

   However to give you a little taster of what we are planning to do we have chosen to carry out the following tasks/pledges;
   - Look out for Gadgets / products which help with you with your recycling tasks and pledges.
   - Raise awareness of public recycling bins and types off
   - Recycle my food by using left overs for lunch each day.
   You can now go to the Recycle Now website to make your pledge.

   Also as bonus if you sign up to http://www.MoreEco.com during Recycling week we will give you an extra 100 joining points.

   Use offer code ‘recyclenow’.

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   Almost Mrs Average's Rubbish Diet said on June 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am

   Hi Zoe – Wow, what a fantastic pledge. It’s great that you’re joining in with the Recycle Week campaign and thank you so much for the write-up too. That was a lovely surprise. It looks like you have pretty good recycling facilities locally. I’m wondering whether it will be mixed plastics that might be the tricky one. Are you able to recycle things like margarine tubs and yoghurt pots? Doing a rubbish free day is a wonderful challenge. Good luck and feel free to drop me a line if you need any help.

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   Willi Paul said on September 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 pm

   We love Recycle Week. We also want to evolve to a barter economy, right?

   One useful site is http://favorpals.com – no money; no sponsors.

   WP

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