We all throw away tetra paks into our bins rather than recycle them because we’ve been told they’re not recyclable. Well, that’s no longer true. Tetra Pak are taking certain actions to make this possible. They began by recruiting a National Recycling Officer in 2006 and now help fund local authority recycling initiatives.
Their site says, ‘Tetra Pak’s National Recycling Officers, are here to help local authorities that want to start collections. To support them with this, Tetra Pak and the carton industry under ACE UK (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment UK) have also created a £1.2 million National Recycling Fund.
NEW! To achieve rapid roll-out, we and our partners at ACE UK are now offering a cost neutral bring bank solution to all local authorities that are not yet collecting cartons.’
To find out more click here.
It’s actually been possible for a while to recycle Tetrapaks, although it did require you to bundle them off and post them to Tetrapack yourself, so this is a very welcome development!
Hi Matt,
I will get onto my local council about this.
Our council recycling facilities have been very good so far and our kerbside collection service has been easy and convenient. Our recylable stuff was collected every week and our waste collected every two weeks which I think incenitfies us to be more responsible about our waste but our council has recently weakened to public pressure and will now collect our waste every week instead of every two weeks and our recyclables every two weeks. I reckon this might make people get into lazy habits again.
Hi Ginger,
Put our recycling through the post! Thank god the lazy, arrogant ways of business are finally being challenged.
Hi earthpal,
I emailed someone in my council and was told that our area’s local recycling centre takes them but, there’s no word on kerbside collection yet, which is what needs to happen to deal with that laziness you mention.
Our recyclers won’t take them and we use a ton of them with the soy milk we drink. It’s kinda depressing!