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Check out our Christmas Recycling Tips for over the holidays. There is typically 30% more packaging in the house over Christmas so don’t forget about your Green Bin

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Happy Holidays from everyone at Repak.

Scotland has unveiled ‘radical’ plans to ban recyclables going to landfill to help its drive towards zero waste.

These plans include source segregation and seperate collection of key recyclable materials (paper and card, glass, metals and plastics) and a ban on sending all biodegradable waste to landfill.

Other key measures include:

- Restriction on the inputs to thermal treatment facilities.

- A ban on mixing separately collected recyclable materials.

The Scottish government said it wanted to introduce these ‘radical plans’ to make Scotland one of the highest performing nations for recycling in Europe.

Find out what these measures actually entail of by clicking here. Could we see Ireland adopting this approach in a few years? Let me know what you think.

A total of 51% of office workers find the poor recycling habits of their colleagues a source of irritation. That’s according to recent research that we conducted by MRBI amongst a representative sample of 1,000 adults.

However, only 32% of these people ever confronted a colleague over their poor recycling habits in the office. Most surprisingly only 33% of people claimed to regularly recycle office paper in the workplace.

A staggering 30% of office workers believe it is not their responsibility to recycle while 29% claim they don’t think about recycling. This is despite the fact that 80% claim to have access to some sort of recycling collection.

So lets get recycling, encourage your colleagues to also recycle and if you see someone not making the effort in work point it out to them. They will probably be more embarrassed than you will be.

Heineken is to use Facebook to source the design for a limited edition bottle to celebrate its 140th anniversary next year.

In the competition, launched today by the Dutch beer brand, participants will submit their own designs to an online gallery on Heineken’s Facebook Page. They will then join their design with that of another participant to create what Heineken has dubbed a ‘virtual design duo’

The winning team will see their bottle go into production for a limited edition gift pack to celebrate the brands 140th anniversary in December 2012

More details are available on the competition here and looking forward to seeing the ideas that are submitted.