UK: Poll shows nearly 30% of citizens could recycle more

Nearly 3 in 10 people in England don’t recycle as much as they could, with 38% of those people citing confusing information on packaging or from local authorities as the reason. The findings come from a poll conducted by Serco and Future Thinking, which surveyed over 12,000 members of the general public.
Serco Environmental Service’s business, which manages waste collections for over 1 million households on behalf of 16 local authorities across England, estimates that confusion over what can be put in household recycling is costing local authorities around £45m each year as a result of contaminated waste that is unable to be processed (Press Release Serco, 12 September 2016).
Click here for the press release.
Click here for an infographic about the results (175 kB).

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