Hounslow: There’s No Time to Waste
Hounslow currently recycles around 37% of our thrown-away materials. This is not bad going. But we’re an ambitious borough, and – with your help – we know we can do more.
And that’s where our No Time to Waste campaign – and this website – comes in.
Here you can:
We’ve teamed up with residents from across the borough to help us spread the word.
You’ll spot them online, on digital billboards, and across your social media. You may just recognise a face or two…
The Mission
The Council and its partners are here to support Hounslow residents to recycle more, waste less, and increase the amount of stuff we reuse.
Becoming engaged with the circular economy is an important next step for us all. This means making products last longer and recovering materials or other benefits from them when they can’t be fixed.
No Time to Waste will raise awareness about the environmental and financial benefits of these actions. These steps will protect our environment by lowering our communal carbon footprint, and help save households and the Council money.
With residents feeling the pinch up and down the country, there really is “no time to waste”, and no better time to improve our relationship with reusing and recycling our possessions, and reducing the amount we throw into the rubbish.
The science: why waste matters
Simply: everything we throw away impacts our carbon footprint. But if you’d like a more thorough explanation, we’d recommend reading “The First Mile” blog.
When we recycle, it means we use less energy producing and moving new goods. This reduces the amount of carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions from being released into our atmosphere. Which helps stop climate change and our planet heating up.
But when we don’t recycle… Whether that be cardboard, plastics, bottles, or garden waste; if thrown into household rubbish (that’s the black bin), we’re losing these vital resources and the financial benefit it could bring.
Instead, the Council must pay to send waste to a ‘recovery’ energy from waste plant (nothing goes to landfill, but black bin waste is still more costly to dispose of than recycled materials).
Increasing the amount we recycle
(which releases less energy)
+
reducing the amount of waste we throw in black bins
(which lessens disposal costs)
