Mark your calendars for National Recycling Week, taking place November 13-19! This year, we're embracing the theme ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’, championing a circular approach to resources and waste. Join the WA households, schools, workplaces, and councils getting involved to learn, be inspired and celebrate recycling.
Download a FREE resource pack
Loads of local governments and community groups are downloading these GREAT resources to promote National Recycling Week aligned to WA’s own GREAT Sorts waste sorting campaign:
You can also visit Planet Ark’s website for more specific National Recycling Week resources.
GREAT recyclers
GREAT sorts keep it simple by recycling just the 5. They recycle nothing else, all these 5 and only these 5.
The best recyclers know that GREAT recycling goes beyond the bin. They also Take things such as soft plastics, batteries, electronic waste and chemicals to special drop-off facilities. It feels good to recycle more.
'R' is for Recycling
Great things happen when you recycle just the 5! Your recyclables can be turned into something new and used again:
- Plastic bottles become bathers, beanies and benches.
- Cans become cars.
- Glass bottles and jars become road base.
- Paper and cardboard become toilet paper!
‘E’ is for Earth-cycling
GREAT Sorts are great at Earth-cycling – by sending food scraps and garden waste to become compost via the FOGO bin – or by composting at home. After all, composting is nature’s way of recycling!
'T' is for Taking
The best recyclers know that GREAT recycling goes beyond the bin. They also Take things such as soft plastics, batteries, electronic waste and chemicals to special drop-off facilities. It feels good to recycle more.
Let's do this
By recycling only these 5, a clean waste stream is created that can be sorted, sold and turned into valuable products.
- Paper
- Cans
- Cardboard
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Glass jars and bottles
GREAT Sorts always put their recyclables in the recycling bin loose, rinsed, and with the lids off.
Get involved
Join other GREAT recyclers at these exciting community events celebrating National Recycling Week – most of these are free. Are you hosting an event? Make sure you let us know!
Tell your friends and family about what you're doing. It's more fun to go to these events together, or to challenge yourselves to make a change in your home, workplace or school.
More people are getting involved each year and help reap the environmental benefits of recycling. Together, we can do better than the bin and make landfill the last resort!
Find out more about how you can become a GREAT Sort and how to do better than the bin here.