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Ecosurety and Hubbub join forces to create high-profile consumer recycling campaigns

Collaboration aims to increase quality UK recycling

Leading resource efficiency specialist Ecosurety has partnered with environmental charity Hubbub to increase quality recycling in the UK. From 2018 the exclusive collaboration will see two consumer-facing campaigns a year, funded by producer responsibility compliance evidence money, created and executed by Hubbub.

The partnership will see Ecosurety members’ compliance evidence money put towards the consumer awareness campaigns via its Circularety platform, to increase transparency and ultimately UK recycling. Such campaigns are expected to generate more compliance evidence and ultimately lower costs for producer members.

Recent campaigns by Hubbub include a high-profile coffee cup recycling initiative which has led to over 1.2 million being recycled, the redistribution of perishable food to voluntary and charitable organisations via community fridges, as well as a forthcoming campaign to increase plastic recycling. The #1moreshot Coffee Cup scheme, which started in Manchester and then spread to London, now has interest from Germany.

Regular canvassing of opinion

The partnership between Ecosurety and Hubbub will also see regular canvassing of opinion from obligated producers and recyclers about which issues or campaigns should be prioritised across producer responsibility compliance.  

This Autumn, the two organisations will also launch a public awareness campaign along with major UK retailers to encourage more households to recycle domestic batteries. The UK fell short of its 2016 battery collection target, with the collection being met disproportionately by lead acid batteries.

James Piper, managing director at Ecosurety, says, “As recycling and compliance specialists, Ecosurety has seen first-hand just how easy it can be for waste to be rejected because it is contaminated, mixed with other materials, or does not make it into the recycling system at all.

“We strongly feel that if UK consumers were better informed and therefore better able to care about recycling best practice, our recycling rates would increase even further. The collaboration with Hubbub and use of compliance evidence money that has already been spent by producers, aims to fix this disconnect between the consumer and the waste and recycling industry.”

Tangible impacts and longevity

Trewin HubbubTrewin Restorick, Hubbub’s CEO (pictured left), says, “Working with dedicated and passionate partners such as Ecosurety, which is uniquely positioned to connect recyclers with major brands and create sustainable change, is key to Hubbub’s approach.

We are committed to creating campaigns with tangible impacts and longevity, and are excited to devise awareness-raising campaigns to help UK consumers make better choices about how and what they recycle.”

 

About Ecosurety

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Founded in 2003, Ecosurety is the UK’s leading resource efficiency specialist with end to end services including batteries, packaging and WEEE compliance, training and waste collections.  With more than 1,000 customers including The Co-operative Group, Innocent and Virgin Media, Ecosurety is leading change in approaches to environmental compliance throughout the UK, driving ever greater efficiencies of resource use.

Committed to reducing the environmental impact of UK businesses while improving performance, Ecosurety is targeting to influence over one million tonnes of waste by 2020.

 

About Hubbub

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Hubbub UK is an environmental charity that uses the latest thinking backed by academic research to explore new ways to run behaviour change campaigns. The charity explores innovative and fun ways to interest mainstream consumers in important sustainability issues, through different ‘hubs’ of activity: Food; Fashion; Homes; and Neighbourhoods.

Hubbub’s previous campaigns have included #SquareMileChallenge, the UK’s first large scale solution to coffee cup recycling, #GiftABundle to get pre-loved baby clothes back into circulation and #PumpkinRescue to encourage more people to eat the carvings from their Halloween Pumpkins.


Ben Luger

Marketing projects specialist

Ben joined the team at the beginning of 2015 and helps drive marketing communications and projects for Ecosurety, including project managing the launch of the Ecosurety Exploration Fund and website content development.


Written by Ben Luger Published 13/09/2017 Topics Ecosurety

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