The Isle of Wight Council is once again supporting National Recycle Week, encouraging residents to take part in this year’s campaign.
Recycle Week, now in its 22nd year, runs from 22nd to 28th September 2025. It celebrates the positive actions taken by individuals and communities across the UK to recycle more and waste less.
Rescue Me! Recycle
Led by Recycle Now, the national campaign continues its ‘Rescue Me! Recycle’ theme. The message highlights how many of the items thrown away still have the chance of a second life.
From empty aerosols and tin cans to paper, plastic bottles and glass, every item recycled avoids landfill and helps move towards a more sustainable future.
On the Island, residents play a key role by recycling the household items used every day. Dry recyclables such as plastic, metal, paper and glass are collected from kerbsides and sorted at the Forest Park Mechanical Treatment Plant.
Island of recyclers
Natasha Dix, director for waste, environment and planning, said,
“We are definitely an Island of recyclers.
“Our busy lives are full of things we could and should reuse and recycle. So, whether you reuse and recycle what you can this Recycle Week, let’s keep an eye out for the things we could rescue from the general waste.
“We can all do our bit — let’s Rescue more, Recycle more.”
Two decades of action
Recycle Week launched in 2003 to encourage sustainable recycling habits and reduce environmental impact.
More than twenty years later, it continues as a key national campaign, bringing together individuals, communities and businesses in support of a greener future.
For more information on what you can recycle and where it goes, visit the Isle of Wight Council website.
About Recycle Week
First staged in 2004, Recycle Week is now the UK’s largest national annual recycling campaign.
It brings together individuals, media, local government and brands with one aim: to galvanise everyone into recycling more of the right things, more often.
About Recycle Now
For more than twenty years, Recycle Now has encouraged people across the UK to recycle more items from around the home. Using research and behaviour change science, the organisation develops interventions and campaigns designed to motivate people to act.
