NowRecycle Blog

Welcome to the first NowRecycle.co.uk bulletin which is packed with information, industry news, and special offers for businesses and organisations in the recycling and waste management sectors.

In this bulletin:

• Belgium’s ‘pay as you throw’ pilot achieves record results
• Win a free stylish mini Wheelie-Bin
• Text messages help raise recycling rates and save collection costs 
• NowRecycle.co.uk launches website for easier ordering 
• Disability breakthrough in waste management
• 10% special discount offer

In this edition, we look at how IOK, Belgium’s “pay as you throw” pilot resulted in a 78% reduction in household waste, and how “smart” technology helps recycling banks send text messages to notify collectors when they’re full. We also highlight a new initiative that helps visually impaired people recycle more; and finally, don’t miss out on your chance to claim a free mini-wheelie bin for your desk!

Belgium’s ‘pay as you throw’ pilot achieves record results
A variable charging pilot scheme in Belgium has resulted in a dramatic reduction in household waste and increase in recycling. Is this the sign of things to come in the UK?
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Win a free stylish mini Wheelie-Bin
Register with our website, and we will send you one of our popular desk mini wheelie-bins which you can park next to your PC – they’re always popular at our roadshows! (limited to the first 250 sign-ups)

Text messages help raise recycling rates and save collection costs 
Plastic Omnium has developed an innovative “smart” remote messaging system that could dramatically increase recycling rates and cut collection costs, through the use of text messaging.
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NowRecycle.co.uk launches website for easier ordering 
The NowRecycle.co.uk website has been launched by Europe’s leading waste containment services company, Plastic Omnium, to offer local authorities and businesses an easier way to order waste recycling products.
www.nowrecycle.co.uk

Disability breakthrough in waste management
Consultation with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) has helped Plastic Omnium develop an inventive idea to aid visually impaired householders to segregate and recycle their waste.
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10% special discount offer
To coincide with the launch of our bulletin, NowRecycle is offering a 10% discount on all orders made before August 17th.
>> view our Special offers page

We hope that you have found our first bulletin useful - please forward it to colleagues who you think it may interest. For a complete listing of all news stories, please visit our blog. If there is anything which you would like to hear more about in the future, then please let us know.

Simon Dutta
Marketing Director (N Europe)
www.NowRecycle.co.uk  

NowRecycle is a trading style of Plastic Omnium Urban Systems Ltd