United Biscuits and TerraCycle Launch the First Ever UK Biscuit Wrapper Recycling Scheme…
June 28, 2012 by Hannah B
Filed under Food, Food & Drink, Green Living, Recycle Now
It has recently been announced that United Biscuits, the manufacturer of McVitie’s, the UK’s leading biscuit brand, has teamed up with recycling experts TerraCycle UK to launch the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade. This is a first for the industry, the recycling and fundraising scheme will save biscuit wrappers from British landfill sites and is open to every biscuit consumer across the UK. It begins on June 18th 2012 and all the consumers have to do is simply send biscuit wrappers to TerraCycle UK to help reduce waste and raise funds for a charity of their choice!
Amazingly over the last twelve months, 487,000 tonnes of biscuits with a retail value of £2.3 billion were sold in the UK! Biscuit wrappers are recyclable, but very little mixed plastic recycling is carried out by local council kerb side collections, which results in billions of biscuit wrappers being sent to landfill. As a result of this, McVitie’s and TerraCycle have joined together to launch this innovative new scheme that encourages consumers to help end this enormous waste of resources by sending in their used biscuit wrappers from any brand to be recycled. These will be recycled into everyday products such as watering cans, garden benches and waste bins.
The McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade is open to consumers across the UK who can get involved for free by clicking here. Once registered, they can download pre-paid Royal Mail labels which mean sending in old wrappers which is completely free. All consumers have to do is simply collect any brand of biscuit wrapper, put them in a box or envelope, print the free postage label from the website and then stick it into the package and post it!
The biscuit wrapper reclamation programme also incentivises the return of used biscuit wrapper packaging by helping consumers to raise money for a charity of their choice. TerraCycle and McVitie’s rewards consumers with TerraCycle points for every biscuit wrapper sent in, with each point redeemable as a one pence contribution to the charity of the sender’s choice. For information on this new environmentally friendly scheme that raises funds for charities click here for more information and get involved to help make a difference!
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What a great idea!Biscuit wrappers are so colourful that they can be used in many recycling projects.I use alot of magazines in my work as well as biscuit wrappers so it’s good to see that more companies are realising that recycling is the way forward.