Island residents can now drop off different types of waste packaging, such as coffee packaging, baby wipes packaging and baby food pouches to the Southern Amenity Site, and raise money for IOM Anti-Cancer Association at the same time.
Working in partnership, IOM Anti-Cancer Association and the Southern Amenity Site have signed up to a new recycling initiative that enables Island residents to recycle various types of waste packaging for the first time. The scheme, set up by recycling experts TerraCycle, has enabled the Southern Amenity Site to host public access collection bins where local people can drop off certain types of waste packaging for recycling that would otherwise be destined for the rubbish bin.
Derek Cain, Chairman of the Southern Amenity Site Board, commented: “The Southern Amenity Site is currently participating in the Ella’s Kitchen Brigade, Johnson’s Baby Wipe Packaging Brigade, Coffee Packaging Brigade and the Tassimo Brigade. These recycling programmes make it possible for local residents to recycle waste packaging which is normally too difficult or costly to recycle – by working with IOM Anti-Cancer Association, we are pleased to be one of the first communities in the UK and Isle of Man to offer a recycling drop off point for these materials.”
Theresa Grainger from IOM Anti-Cancer Association explained: “Island residents can raise funds to work against cancer by dropping off any brand of empty baby food pouches, empty baby wipe packaging, used coffee refill bags, empty coffee bean bags, coffee jar lids, single serving of coffee sachets, and TDISC’s and outer flow wrap packaging.”
The new collection bins are situated by the clothes recycling bins at the Southern Amenity Site.
Collected waste is sent across to TerraCycle in the UK, and is recycled into generic plastic products such as park benches, watering cans and waste bins, slowing the need to extract new resources from the planet.
As well as supporting the local environment, two TerraCycle points are earned for the weight of each unit of waste that is returned, with each point being redeemable for a one penny contribution to IOM Anti-Cancer Association.
Ms Grainger added: “The aim is to not only save as much packaging heading into the rubbish bin, but also to support the work of IOM Anti-Cancer Association. For the Association, these items which people would previously just discard, can translate to money towards our work against cancer.”
You can find out more about the recycling opportunities and their opening hours by contacted the Southern Amenity Site on 836202 or by visiting their website http://southernamenitysite.com/.
For more information about TerraCycle and their recycling programmes, please visit www.terracycle.co.uk.
Photo - Representatives from the Southern Amenity Site and IOM Anti-Cancer Association using the new recycling bins (Photo courtesy of John Maddrell).
