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🌍 This Earth Day, break up with pointless plastic ❌ 👉 Head to our Pointless Plastics page on our site for tips and tricks to reduce plastic use and recycle right. 🎤 @teadayblogs #EarthDay #PlasticPollution #plastics
🌟Got yourself a shiny new food waste bin (aka caddy)? Over the next few months, more and more London households will be able to recycle their food waste, meaning your food scraps will transformed into electricity or fertiliser for farmers. 👉 Find more info on what you can and can't recycle at our website. #foodwaste #foodrecycling #recyclingtips
Millions of vapes and pods are still being binned every week in the UK, causing dangerous fires and wasting valuable materials. 🔥 ♻️ The good news is that they can be recycled! And all shops that sell vapes and vape pods are legally required to take back old ones for recycling, so it should be as easy to recycle them as it is to buy them. 👉 Use @recycleyourelectricals_ locator to find shops where you can drop them off safely. #RecycleYourElectricals
Did you know that aluminium foil can be recycled again and again? Save your Easter egg foils, scrunch them into a tennis ball size and recycle. This saves on new materials for foil being produced. Boom. Happy Easter.
All of them!! Good news: recycling is getting a glow up. From 31 March, rules will be in place across England to make sure every home can recycle the same stuff, including new materials like foil, cartons and FOOD! Find out what you can recycle at home via our services at a glance page. #simplerrecycling #foodisntrubbish
📣 Last chance to get your free Repair Voucher and get up to £50 off the cost to fix your tech! 📍 If you live in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington or Waltham Forest you have until 31 March to get your voucher - visit https://zurl.co/OzYEw #repairvoucher #electronicrepair #repair
☪️ Did you know that 98% of Muslim people agree that food waste is an important issue? (Source: @lfwh_uk) 🍽️ To help combat food waste this Eid, we've rounded up some helpful tips to make your Eid feast go further - swipe to see what you can do with leftovers to keep them out of the bin. 🌟 Wishing all Londoners a healthy, happy and waste-free Eid. #foodwaste #eid #ramadan #foodwastetips #leftovers
🛠️ Did you attend a Repair Week event this year? We want to thank those who took part by offering the chance to win £200 worth of repair vouchers. 👉 Visit the link in bio to complete our short feedback survey to help shape future Repair Weeks and be entered into the draw. #repairweekldn #repairweek
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Reduce my waste

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Food recycling

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Business recycling

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