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News Release from: FENSA
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2008
FENSA on saving money by recycling
As part of national recycling week recently, FENSA is urging everyone, homeowners and businesses to recycle.
There are many benefits of recycling for everyone which include: * Saving money: Some local authorities are looking at adopting methods for charging homeowners who do not recycle sufficiently
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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* Fight Climate Change: Recycling helps conserve important raw materials and protects natural habitats for the future.
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* Great for the environment: Recycling reduces the environmental impact of our homes and businesses.
Recycling waste materials enables them to be used again in new products and applications, instead of going to landfill where they generate harmful greenhouse gas emissions For example; glass is 100% recyclable and can be endlessly recycled with no loss in quality.
Local authorities usually offer homeowners free recycling collections and drop off points locally.
Both homeowners and businesses can go onto the following websites and input information (e.g postcode) to find their nearest local recycling service:.
* Wrap's Recycle More website at www.recycle-more.co.uk (homeowners and businesses).
* WRAP's Recycle Now website www.recyclenow.com (mainly for homeowners but useful info for businesses) Wrap's Recycle Glass web database - www.recycleglass.org.uk (businesses).
* WRAP's SME Recycling Programme at www.recycleatwork.org.uk (businesses).
* British Plastics Federation Recycling Directory www.bpf.co.uk (businesses).
* Dekura www.dekura.co.uk (businesses).
* The Environment Agency's Waste Recycling Directory at www.wasterecycling.org.uk (businesses).
As Jon Vanstone, Director of Registered Businesses, FENSA commented 'As a community, we are mostly aware of the benefits of recycling and wish to adopt more green practices at home and in business.
To help translate these green desires into recycling behaviour, FENSA has compiled the above list as a starting point to make it easy for everyone to find local recycling information that is relevant to their home, trade and business.
This is particularly significant for smaller businesses that are less likely to have contracts with recycling companies to recycle their trade waste.
If you are a FENSA Registered Business, we would urge you to act as a positive example to industry and embrace these recycling schemes.
Now is the time to reduce, reuse and recycle your trade waste.'.
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