Why recycle

Recycling is a great way to reduce your impact on the world. Here you will find some great activities for Earth Day 2023.

These awareness posters can be used to promote a recycling scheme. To help raise people's consciousness for the importance of recycling, to prevent waste through reusing or reducing and have fun at the same time. To help advertise the Waste and Recycling system — from collection of plastics, papers, glass and metals in a single container to sorting and processing to the finished products now being made from recyclables.

Every year, the Earth yields billions of tons of natural resources and at some point, in the not too distant future, it will run out. That’s why we must think again about what we throw away – seeing not waste, but opportunity. Recycling is a key part of the circular economy, helping to protect our natural resources. Each year the ‘Seventh Resource’ (recyclables) saves over 700 million tonnes in CO2 emissions and this is projected to increase to 1 billion tons by 2030.

The 6 Rs of sustainability are: rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair. Learn why they are important and how YOU can help.

Use our free template to make this mosaic paper recycling craft that's perfect as an easy Earth Day activity or recycling activity for kids.

We're celebrating National Recycling Day with everything you need to know about reducing, reusing, and recycling.

| Q&A | Your questions answered

Reduce, reuse and recycle are known as the 3 Rs of recycling, with reduce being the first step when thinking about consumption. It is a simplified version of the waste hierarchy which indicates an order of preference for dealing with waste: at the top (the best course of action) is usually prevention, then it's reuse, recycle, recovery, with disposal sitting at the bottom as the least desirable course of action.

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle