Every year in the UK, Recycle Week is a chance to pause and reflect on how we produce waste, how we manage it and how we can all do better.
In 2025, Recycle Week runs from 22-27 September and its goal is simple but vital: raising awareness of recycling, encouraging individuals, businesses, and communities to reduce waste, reuse what they can, and recycle correctly.
At MYGroup, this is more than just a timely campaign – it aligns with our core mission. Waste management isn’t just what we do; it’s how we do business. Here’s how Recycle Week ties directly into our work, and how together we can kick up the impact in 2025.
What Recycle Week 2025 Aims For
Some of the key messages of Recycle Week are:
- Learn about recycling: Understanding what can/can’t be recycled locally, knowing the rules.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: It’s not just recycling more – it’s reducing waste in the first place, reusing things where possible, then recycling.
- Clean-up & community action: Get involved – schools, businesses, neighbourhoods hosting clean-ups, drop-off points, etc.
- Advocacy & behaviour change: Encouraging workplaces, councils, families to see recycling as part of their daily habits.
How MYGroup is Already Putting Recycle Week into Practice
We believe in walking the walk. Here are several ways MYGroup is delivering against those same goals:
- Wide range of waste streams handled & innovation
We don’t just take general waste. MYGroup handles agricultural waste; plastics (including hard-to-recycle types); food waste; hazardous waste; clinical waste; ocean plastic; construction & demolition waste; wood & timber; textiles; and more.
Inside that, we have specialist services like RecyClin™ for healthcare waste, Insectology™ Black Soldier Fly bioconversion, composting, anaerobic digestion and advanced MRF (Materials Recycling Facility) operations.
- “Recycle the unrecyclable” with ReFactory™ and MYboard™
One of the biggest challenges in recycling is those items that often get discarded because they’re difficult to process: blister packs, mixed plastics, certain packaging. Our ReFactory™ brand offers boxes sized for home, business, makerspace use, with free delivery & collection, so that people can send in “unrecyclables” and we recycle them responsibly.
We also convert plastics via our MYboard™ product – creating durable reusable boards and materials out of plastic waste. This is very much aligned with the “reduce / reuse / recycle” mantra.
- End-to-end responsibility & zero waste goals
We are doing more than just collecting and sorting. From secure destruction, containment and transport, to converting food waste into energy or animal feed, we manage the full chain in-house.
Landfill diversion is a priority – minimising what ends up wasting space & generating bio-energy. Our goal is closed-loop systems, where materials keep being used, re-used and repurposed, rather than being discarded.
- Client & community collaboration
We don’t expect every business to solve this alone. We support clients with tailored Total Waste Management solutions; educate about what can be recycled properly; help organisations with regulatory compliance and share responsibility. Internally, we are also engaging in community initiatives – clean-ups, awareness and innovations like our joint venture for worm bioconversion of food waste, etc.
The bigger picture: why recycling matters more than ever
Recycle Week reminds us that waste is not just a local issue – it links into climate change, resource scarcity, pollution and biodiversity. The UK generates millions of tons of waste annually and many materials are still lost or contaminated, reducing their reuse potential.
By investing in better collection, processing, innovation and behaviour change, companies like ours help reduce carbon emissions, conserve natural resources and push forward a more circular economy.
This Recycle Week, whether you are a business, a school or an individual, here’s how you can join us:
- Check what you currently recycle (in your home / workplace) and see where you can improve.
- Use our ReFactory boxes to divert “problem waste.”
- Ask questions of your supply chains: how much of your packaging or discarded materials could be recycled or reused?
- Spread the word: social media, staff meetings, community boards. Every bit helps.
Recycle Week is a reminder that sustainability isn’t optional – it’s urgent and collective. At MYGroup, we’re committed to being part of the solution. Let’s use this week as a launchpad for making long-term change.
