There are a few ways to recycle your unwanted items and household waste, yet many households still choose not to do so. In the United Kingdom, Wales is currently leading in recycling rates. In November 2014, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ released provisional figures showing Wales is recycling 54% of the 373,000 tonnes of rubbish thrown out every three months.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ latest figures for household waste from 2012 showed the overall UK recycling rate was 43.9%. It was 44.1% in England, 41.7% in Northern Ireland and 38.3% in Scotland. Wales’ figure in 2012 was 52.5%. In 2012, England recycled a total of 9,684,000 tonnes from 21,960,000 tonnes of waste, while Northern Ireland recycled 326,000 tonnes from 783,000. Scotland’s rate was 912,000 tonnes from 2,383,000 and Wales recycled 685,000 tonnes from 1,304,000.
With every year passing, recycling is made simpler. These days every household is provided with recycling boxes by their council, where they can put their:
- Paper/cardboards
- Cans/tins
- Glass/plastics
The larger items can be taken to any recycling bank in the local area. There are also many recycling banks located on streets across the UK as well as in supermarkets and outside housing estates. The recycling banks are emptied on a regular basis, so there is no reason not to recycling. Most local councils offer services to collect larger items from outside your doorstep.
There are also many companies that do door to door collection for recycling items and household waste. These companies offer many services such as rubbish collection, wait and load, skip hire alternative and WEEE recycling. The company will come to collect to your convenience and do all the loading for you.