HOW CAN YOU MAKE IT EASY TO RECYCLE IN YOUR facility?
Meeting new recycling requirements is essential, but improving on‑site recycling also cuts contamination, reduces disposal costs and supports smoother operations.
So, how do you make it simple for employees and site visitors to recycle correctly every time? Here are our top tips:
1. Make it VISIBLE with clear and consistent signage
To improve recycling accuracy, you need to make it simple for people to see where waste goes with clear signage, consistent colours and bins placed where waste is generated.
Make sure your staff and customers can easily see how and where they can recycle. Place your bins so they are visible in areas of high footfall and where you know waste is being generated.
Colour-coded bins with clear signage and symbols that show what can and can’t be recycled will help you minimise costly cross-contamination and make it easy for people to recycle more.
You will need different types of bins in different areas of your facility but by maintaining consistent colours, symbols and messaging throughout, it’ll be easy for people to recycle wherever they are.
With diverse teams and visitors on site, using symbols and multiple languages helps everyone understand where waste should go, reducing errors and contamination.
2. BUILD A RECYCLING CULTURE ACROSS YOUR BUSINESS
Creating the right culture helps your business recycle more and reduce contamination. Bring teams on the journey so they understand why recycling matters and how their actions support smoother operations, reduced costs and improved sustainability.
Maximise your recycling efforts by encouraging your facility users to deposit the right waste in the right bins. Use our editable poster templates to create instructional posters for your own facility and help build a culture of good recycling everywhere.
Our free Love to Learn Recycling online training has been designed to help businesses integrate sustainability into the workplace. The four interactive training modules streamline the most important knowledge your employees need to know, and help you embed a culture of recycling.
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