This year’s theme for Repak Recycling week is “Keep Recycling – let’s get it sorted” and features a series of nationwide educational and promotional campaigns. The campaign will have a special twist this year with a dedicated day given to each material recycled here in Ireland to heighten the consumer’s awareness of the various methods of recycling and the various materials that can be recycled.
Monday will focus on paper and cardboard, Tuesday on glass, Wednesday on plastics, Thursday on aluminium and Friday on Wood. Saturday will see a special drive for WEEE recycling with extra recycling centres open nationwide to accept a range of electrical goods for recycling.
Repak Recycling Week aims to get as many people recycling the maximum amount of packaging during the week and help Ireland work towards achieving its future recycling targets while also reducing their carbon footprint through recycling.
Repak would like to encourage members, Local Authorities and Recovery Operators to take part in the week and take advantage of consumers heightened awareness of recycling during the week.
The Annual Repak Recycling Awards, now in its 6th year, will take place on Thursday 4th October.
Every year the awards recognise the efforts and ingenuity of its Members, Local Authorities and recovery operators in the area of packaging prevention, reuse and recycling. However, on its 10th Anniversary, Repak will be taking this opportunity to honour and congratulate the early members that have been contributing to Repak and recycling since 1997.
These companies were pioneers in taking seriously and willingly their responsibility to fund the recovery and recycling of their used packaging. Some of the early members to sign up to Repak in 1997 include prominent businesses such as, Gallaher (Dublin) Ltd, John Players & Sons, Irish Biscuits, Cadbury Schweppes, Heineken Ireland Ltd, Guinnesses, Dunnes Stores, C&C Ltd, PJ Carroll, Irish Distillers Group, GreenCore Group, and Castrol Ltd, , Johnson & Johnson and Allied Foods Ltd, some of whom have been previous recipients of Repak awards.
Andrew Hetherington, CEO Repak, said, “All Repak members should be very proud of what they have facilitated Ireland to achieve in terms of packaging recycling over the last ten years. Since 1997 Repak members have invested in excess of €118 million in supporting the recovery and recycling of nearly 3 million tonnes of used packaging. It has met and exceed both the 2001 and 2005 EU packaging recovery/recycling targets by helping to grow packaging recycling from under 15% in 1998 to over 60% in 2006.
“We are calling on all companies to show their pride in what they have helped to achieve over the ten years by participating actively in Repak Recycling Week and engaging with consumers to promote packaging recycling.”
Full details of the Repak Recycling Week events and promotions are available on http://www.repak.ie/ .
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