The Christmas Recyclometer

I wrote a post a while ago about the Coca-Cola Recyclometer and the Plant Bottle which you can read here. Basically, as part of their ongoing work at looking into ways of reducing waste and promoting recycling, the team at Coca-Cola have spent months tirelessly collecting facts and figures to give us a tool which makes it easier to recycle.

Lets face it, some of us recycle without thinking about it, some of us (I include myself here), try to recycle and usually remember but aren’t exactly the most savvy when it comes to what you can and what you can’t recycle, and where.

The original Recyclometer is packed full of fantastic info and is a very interactive tool. Kieran loves it.

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Being festive people, the team have given the Recyclometer a Christmas makeover so you now see where you can recycle items used more frequently in the winter months, and how much energy each item saves!

It’s well worth a visit, it’s a great tool for the kids (who if they are anything like my eldest, know much more the envirnment and recycling than I do!) but is also suitable for the rest of the household. It makes things easier, it tells us what we need to know and more so there is no excuse not to use our recycling services to the full.

Slightly off topic, many of you, like myself see the Coca-Cola truck and see this as the marker for the beginning of the festive season. When I was told that the lovelies from Coca-Cola had also produced a fun festive quiz I was confident I would ace it. Apparently not!!

Have some fun and give it a go and see how you get on!*

*If you get them all right the first time, please don’t feel like you need to tell me, it’ll just make me feel worse!

Coca-Cola have really pulled out the stops with this tool which covers much more than I can write about, have a visit and enjoy using the easy to navigate Christmas Recyclometer.

The Recyclometer and the Plant Bottle

That all sounds very Sci-Fi doesn’t it?

This isn’t however an alien mining colony but another two ways that Coca-Cola are making advances in their on-going quest to save the world. Dramatics aside, Coca-Cola have strived over many years to beome increasingly environmentally savvy and the recyclometer and plant bottle are great examples of how they have succeeded.

The Recyclometer. The Recyclometer is an online tool and information source, produced in collaberation with WRAP (working together for a world without waste). With just a few clicks you can see how much energy you could save as a household by recycling everyday household waste.

I could type for hours about the wealth of easy to find and use info in the Recyclometer, from local services to handy tips. The best idea is for you to have a look yourself.  Kieran (5yrs) loves the site and is very keen on recycling, together we have explored and have already found just a few extra ways to reduce waste and save energy.

The Plant Bottle.

Coca-Cola have now launched their new packaging, the PlantBottle. The PlantBottle is made with up to 22.5% plant based material and up to 25% recycled PET plastic. This makes it 100% recyclable. The launch has been part of Coca-Cola’s journey to create a genuinely sustainable bottle. More than 200 million PlantBottle packages will hit the UK shelves this year.

Coca-Cola have also launched the Coca-Cola Recycle Zones – you can read more about these here. You can actually search to find your nearest zone.

In the past, whenever I’ve thought of Coca-Cola I thought of great taste, red labels, the Coca-Cola Santa and Christmas Truck adverts which for many signal the beginning of the “real” Xmas season. Now I think of them of an environmentally concious company that are willing to go the extra mile.

To read more about what Coca-Cola are doing as a global company to make real changes visit the environment section of the website and make sure you explore the Recyclometer. Little changes can make a huge difference.

*This is not a sponsored posts. I did receive a PlantBottle of Coca-Cola to look at and a (gorgeous) umbrella made from recycled goods after doing some work previously with Coca-Cola but am posting about this purely because I am impressed with the changes Coca-Cola are making and rate both the PlantBottle and Recyclometer personally.