Keeping recyclable waste separate ‘vital’ to boosting NI recycling rates
Your favourite Christmas drinks bottles could be back on supermarket shelves within weeks of bring dropped off at a recycling bank – and yet Northern Ireland is exporting and importing recyclable waste.
People have now been urged to carefully sort their recyclable waste to ensure maximum efficiency.
Nicola Carruthers from Keep Recycling Local said that when glass is kept separate, there is a “completely circular economy” in Northern Ireland and glass can be recycled indefinitely.
She said it means a bottle of or Shloer can be drunk, put in a bottle bank, recycled by local companies Enva in Toomebridge and Encirc in Derrylin into new bottles, refilled and back on supermarket shelves within weeks – if waste is separated.
