LIFESTYLE | How Recycling Containers Can Help You Reduce Your Personal Emissions.

Recycling at home means that you are reducing your impact on the environment and helping to reduce your carbon footprint.

Put simply, your recycled materials such as glass and plastic means that brand new glass and plastic containers don’t need to be made.

Aluminium cans made from old ones use 90% less energy to manufacture and transport to retailers.  Making glass from recycled glass saves 315kg of carbon emissions per tonne of glass.  Manufacturing polythene bags from recycled plastic uses 50% less Nitrous Oxide, another dangerous greenhouse gas.

Try to avoid single-use plastics and other single-use containers.