Recycle Week 2023 will take place between 18th – 25th September. This year, we are celebrating 20 years of Recycle Week.
Recycling Facts♻️:
- Recycling plastic uses 88% less energy than manufacturing it from scratch.
- Recycling one ton of cardboard can save 46 gallons of oil.
- Glass can be 100% recycled.
What is Recycle Week♻️?
It’s the one week of the year where retailers, brands, waste management companies, trade associations, governments and the media come together to achieve one goal: to galvanise the public into recycling more of the right things, more often.
Why is recycling important for businesses and individuals♻️?
- Care for the environment: Recycling reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials all of which create substantial air and water pollution. This helps to save energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to tackle climate change. Recycling not only helps to reduce your reliance on unsustainable resources but it also saves energy, as it’s far more energy efficient to create products from recycled materials than from raw materials. Ultimately, organisations should have genuine concern for the impact of their operations on the environment, and considering how to utilise recycling as much as possible is a crucial aspect of caring for the environment.
- Reputation: Nowadays, a business that cares about the environment is attractive for potential employees, customers, and partners. Consumers, employees and partners are now much more switched on to supporting businesses that take responsibility for the environmental impact of their actions, which makes recycling great PR and a way of setting yourself apart from the competition.
- Cost savings: Recycling in your workplace can reduce the costs associated with buying new products or materials. Reducing the amount of waste you send directly to landfill can brings large savings on landfill tax. Creating an environment where recycling is taken seriously can help with achieving ISO 14001, an internationally recognised environmental standard. Maintain this standard can help with securing tenders and new partnerships which in turn will improve business profitability.
3 reasons why you should support Recycle Week in your workplace♻️
1. It is the perfect opportunity to spread awareness
This week encourages us to spread awareness of the importance of recycling. Organisations should share this information with colleagues, friends and family members and get them to also read about the importance of recycling for protecting our planet. Use recycling week to start the conversations and your journey towards focusing on recycling in your workplace, and maintain the momentum from that there onwards to continually improve recycling efforts and do better.
2. It promotes the development of good habits
Recycling is a good habit to develop. By forming this habit and making it part of employees’ daily routine within work, this habit will continue into their free time and people are more likely to recycle at home as well. When the habit it formed, we can achieve the optimal benefits for the wellbeing of our environment. Setting a recycling challenge in your workplace this Recycle Week is a great way to get the ball rolling and begin to install positive habits with regards to recycling.
3. It instils a sense of responsibility
Where employees feel a sense of responsibility for recycling, and achievement when these positive habits are praised, employee motivation and job satisfaction can be increased. Where employees feel a sense of pride to be part of an environmentally responsible organisation, they are likely to be more productive.
How can Team Turnstone help your organisation improve on recycling:
- Creating a recycling policy or strategy.
- Constructing toolbox talks to inform employees of recycling processes within the organisation and their responsibilities for contributing to this.
- Working towards achieving ISO 14001.
Contact Team Turnstone Today to help your business improve on recycling💜💚
