Oldham residents urged to embrace recycle week

Recycle week

Scroll down for Video

Oldham Council is encouraging residents to take a fresh look at recycling habits during recycle week (25 September - 1 October).

This year’s theme of ‘Recycling – It’s Worth It’, aims to demonstrate the benefits of recycling items all around the home by showing what can happen to the things that are recycled.

Over 80% believe recycling does make a difference, but a quarter do not see the direct benefit of recycling.

Why is recycling worth it?

Recycle your empty aerosols and they could come back to life as parts of a brand new mobile phone.

Around 60% of aerosols are made from tinplated steel and approximately 40% are made from aluminium.

Both of these metals are recyclable and can be used to make useful new products such as mobile phone parts.