Amidst some significant sporting events and hopefully some nice weather this June, here at WRAP we will be enjoying our sixth annual Recycle Week.  

Many of us think about ‘recycling’ as including a wide range of activities.  It includes filling our recycling bins at home, dropping off glass bottles and jars at the supermarket bottle bank, donating our old clothes to charity and even passing on power tools and gadgets to friends and family.  Recycling is fast becoming a way of life, and with money being tight, many of the simple things we can do will help save us, or others, money and resources.

Our partnership with the British Heart Foundation, who are one of many excellent partners this Recycle Week, will help give homes to our unwanted and working small electrical items and, at the same time, will raise money for potentially life-saving treatments and equipment.  We live in a society that doesn’t necessarily just replace items because they are broken.  We often upgrade to newer models or styles to fit in with the latest fashion in our homes or lifestyles.  While this suits our fast-paced lives, it’s easy to put the unused items away in the backs of our cupboards, garages and up in our lofts and forget about them.  But just as when we bought them, all of these items - even though they’ve ceased being useful to us - can go on to be incredibly useful either by being recycled into something new or by being donated to one of the 90 British Heart Foundation specialist Furniture & Electrical stores. 

Along with the British Heart Foundation, we are receiving unprecedented support from many other partners this Recycle Week and you can find out more about who some of them are here.  We’re delighted to see such a diversity of partners - a sign that many organisations out there are keen to spread the positive messages about recycling.  We’re thrilled to be working with them all to help make this the biggest and best Recycle Week yet.  Please get involved and make your pledge to recycle at www.recyclenow.com .