Keep Recycling - Let's Get it Sorted is the theme of this year's recycling week, which runs from October 2nd to 8th. Events in the week include competitions for householders, activities for schoolchildren and the Repak Recycling Awards ceremony for industry members, local authorities and collectors. The annual campaign to encourage everyone to recycle more is organised by Repak, the voluntary packaging recycling body, set up by the Government in co-operation with industry.
To encourage the public to bring their paper, glass and plastic recycables to their local recycling centre over the coming week, there is a competition to win a Ford Focus flexi-fuel car (which runs on E85 bioethanol, regular petrol or a mixture of both). While there, you can also pick up one of the 90,000 reusable recycling bags which have been distributed to recycling centres throughout the country.
Schoolchildren will also have a chance to influence recycling patterns by partaking in various activities with materials supplied to schools by Repak. Games include the Recycling House Hunt Card which encourages children to identify various recyclable items in the home. Recycle Me stickers will also encourage erring parents and teachers to mend their ways.
On Saturday next from 10am-4pm, TechRec Ireland, the waste electrical and electronic equipment processor at 51 Park West, Dublin 12 is hosting a public information day. Members of the public can bring along old electrical goods and see how they are processed into reusable raw materials. See www.techrec.ie for more details.
Finally, as part of the week's activities, Repak industry members, local authorities and collectors will be awarded in the areas of packaging prevention, reuse and recycling in an awards ceremony on Wednesday. See www.repak.ie for full details of events and information on local authority recycling centres.
