Hi Everyone!
Today I want to tell you about something I think is very exciting.
If you want to recycle more plastic then this could be your chance! Co-op and Sainsbury's have both launched a new soft plastics recycling scheme where you bring your 'soft plastics' (things like crisp packets, chocolate wrappers and fruit and veg bags) into a designated area.
For 'hard plastics' such as yoghurt pots, juice cartons and fruit and veg punnets, you can use either your local kerbside collection but not every area collects plastics in this way, including mine so we collect ours and bring it to the tip ourselves.
To check if it's a soft plastic you can use the scrunch test- scrunch up the object and if it pings back then it is probably plastic. Then you need to clean it and bring it into one of the stores. Co-op even accepts plastics from other retailers!
Co-op uses the plastic to make bin bags for use in the store which I think is a great idea.
All you need to do is find your nearest participating store and start collecting plastic! You can find a list of Sainsbury's stores included here to check if your local one is included. Click here to view a brief video from Co-op about it and here to see the list of participating stores.
Also here to see Sainsbury's page about it and here to see Co-op's.
I hope you will have look at a few links and take part in this project
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