It's national Recycle Week from 23 to 29 September when organisations, businesses and individuals come together to promote recycling.

The campaign this year is around taking recycling into our own hands, showing people that recycling is the norm and it’s happening all across Britain. The theme is aimed at encouraging action wherever you are. 

It's one of the Recycling Team's busiest times of the year as they go out and about the district, arrange photo calls, issue media releases, post messages on social media, do interviews, visit organisations and take part in school assemblies.

Some of the highlights include:

• announcing the winners in the name a recycling bin wagon competition at a road show in City Park yesterday where lots of people came and asked about things they weren't sure they could recycle or not
• lighting up City Hall and City Park in green
• a visit to Carlisle Business Centre on Wednesday to talk to the organisations and visitors about how they can recycle more
• taking the road show to Asda in Rooley Lane to meet lots of residents on Thursday 
• going to Swain House Primary School on Friday with Pulse Radio's Mylo and Rosie to do a special assembly

Together, we will empty, crush, squash, sort and separate to make this year's Recycle Week the biggest and best ever!

Thanks to funding from Bradford Council’s UCI budget and the Aire Rivers Trust, the Council’s Drainage and Recycling teams are making a piece of land art with the artists ‘Sand in Your Eye’ and volunteers for the UCI Road World Cycling Championships in Bradford on the 28 September. 

The 50m x 40m Fish on a Bicycle has been painted on Council land off Coach Road on the River Aire and volunteers will be working with us on the 27^th September to lay out recyclable waste on the image,  which is all too often found in our local rivers.

Whilst the artwork has been commissioned to celebrate the cycling event, it has been designed and produced to raise awareness of the efforts local communities have put in to help clean up the river. 

Bradford district has a growing number of voluntary groups who undertake river stewardship works such as river clean ups, litter picks and invasive species identification as well as regularly reporting any pollution incidents to the Environment Agency.  The Council’s Flood Programme Board has provided funding to support this work through the Aire Rivers Trust. 

Watch out for the overhead photos of the finished artwork over the weekend!