Recycle the seemingly unrecyclable!

We are lucky in South Oxfordshire to have brilliant support from the local District Council to enable us to recycle a lot of our waste from our doordsteps. The South Oxfordshire website has all the information you need about this. But…what about those ‘unrecyclables’ that they are not able to provide a doorstep solution to? Enter TerraCycle.

Who?

Some of you will have heard of TerraCycle, but for those of you who haven’t, here’s the lowdown (direct from Terracycle):

TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling typically hard-to-recycle waste.

TerraCycle offers free recycling programmes funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help you collect and recycle your hard-to-recycle waste. For example, crisp packets, cheese wrappers, beauty packaging, .

A variety of organisations (such as schools and churches), as well as individuals, act as drop-off points for you to take your hard-to-recycle waste to. Once they have enough, they then send the waste to be recycled by TerraCycle and in turn earn rewards for the school or their chosen non-profit organisation.

There are various drop-off locations local to Thame (see the TerraCycle website for the full list of locations for each recycling programme) but you may need to travel round a little to drop-off all your items at the different locations.

Get involved in this project

Could you be a new Terracycle location?

Partners

This project is currently being developed by Thame Green Living and Thame Town Council. If you want to get involved contact us through the form above.