🎉 We've hit 6 months of kerbside textile recycling in Oxford with @RecycleSolUK and you’ve helped divert over 17 tonnes from landfill! ♻️💚 All donated to Thames Valley Air Ambulance 🚁 Book your free collection today 👇 🔗 oxford.gov.uk/recycling #OxfordRecycles #TextileRecycling

♻️ This #SecondHandSeptember shop pre-loved, cut waste & dress for a fairer world 🌍👚 Donate clothes via Oxfam or book a FREE kerbside collection 🚪➡️ oxford.gov.uk/textilerecycli… to support charities incl. Thames Valley Air Ambulance 💙

Back-to-school quiet = time for coffee ☕ In Oxford, you can now recycle your pods at the kerbside ♻️ Weekly collections via Podback: podback.org/recycle-checker #Recycle #Oxford #Coffee

♻️✨ Not long now… Recycle Week 2025 is 22–28 Sept! ✨ ♻️ Oxford Recycles + ODS are joining the Rescue Me! Recycle campaign 💚 This year it’s about the surprising items we forget 👀 🆕 Hint: bathroom cabinets & kitchen drawers… 🧴🍫 👉 recyclenow.com/rescue-me-recy…

♻️✨ #RecycleWeek 2025 is here! ✨♻️ Oxford Recycles & ODS are joining the Rescue Me! Recycle campaign 💚 (22–28 Sept). 🆕 Focus items: shampoo bottles 🧴, foil 🍫, toothpaste tubes 😁 🔄 Plus last year’s heroes: aerosols, yoghurt pots & more!👉 recyclenow.com/RecycleWeek

Toilet roll tubes → Egg boxes🥚♻️ Don’t bin your toilet roll tubes – recycle them so they can come back as egg boxes. Let’s get cracking! 👉oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek #RescueMeRecycle

2. Yoghurt pots → Toys🪀 “Don’t bin me – recycle me!” Yoghurt pots can be rescued and turned into toys and more. Find out how with the Waste Wizard: 👉 oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek

♻️ Just one week until the ODS Waste Reduction Team will be at Oxford Town Hall for UN Older People’s Day 2025! 🎉 Fun recycling merch (yes, you need a spaghetti measure) 💬 Ask us your recycling questions 📅 Wed 1 Oct | 10–3 | Oxford Town Hall #UNOlderPeoplesDay

Foil → Bike frame / drinks can✨♻️ Foil’s future? A shiny bike frame or a drinks can. Don’t bin your clean trays, lids or foil – recycle them! 👉 oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek #FoilRecycling

Spray bottles → Raincoat💦🧴 I’m not a one-spray wonder! Recycle your plastic spray bottles at home so they can live again – maybe as a raincoat. 👉 oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek

Shampoo bottles → New bottle🧴♻️ Lather, rinse, recycle – that’s the routine! Most bathroom plastics, including shampoo bottles, can be recycled at home. 👉oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek

Aerosol cans → Train parts🚆♻️ Aerosols don’t belong in the rubbish bin – recycle them instead! They could end up as train parts. 👉oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard #RecycleWeek

♻️ Roger & Luca from our Waste Reduction Team had a busy week with OBU Sustainability! They ran stalls at Clive Booth, Paul Kent, Crescent & Warneford Halls, chatting recycling, tackling food waste & launching a student recycling challenge 🙌 Next up: University of Oxford St Peter's🎓

🌾 #WorldFoodDay 2025 🌍 Today marks the 80th anniversary of Food and Agriculture Organization. Here in Oxford, let’s go #HandInHand to: 🥕Plan meals 🍞Waste less 🌿Compost more 👉 Food-saving hacks: lovefoodhatewaste.com/good-food-habi… 👉Got leftovers? Get a food caddy: oxford.gov.uk/recycling-wast…

🚪 Our Recycling and Waste Reduction Team has teamed up with Oxford Brookes University and together they are out and about in Oxford today, chatting with residents and students about managing waste properly & keeping communities clean! 🌍💚 Questions?👉 oxford.gov.uk/recycling-waste

♻️ It’s #NationalReuseDay! 💚 Today we’re celebrating Oxford’s Reuse Heroes – residents, groups & projects helping people waste less & reuse more 🌍 🎥 Watch Freegle’s Sofa Story 💚 youtube.com/watch?v=1SxLok… Get more tips: oxford.gov.uk/recycling-comm… And list: ilovefreegle.org

🎃 Horrified by Halloween food waste? In the UK, 18,000 tonnes of edible pumpkins go to waste 😱Don’t toss yours, cook it up! 🥧🍛 Find recipes 👉lovefoodhatewaste.com/foods-and-reci… & join @GoodFoodOxon’s Pumpkin Festival 🎃 goodfoodoxford.org 🌱⚡#PumpkinRescue

♻️ Interested in sustainability? Discover how Oxfordshire waste resources are processed at Ardley Energy Recovery Facility. See how non-recycled waste is treated & generates enough energy to power 80,000+ homes. ⚡ Book your free visit: viridor.co.uk/book-a-visit/

Autumn's here but Starbucks has already ditched PSL for Christmas ☕️ Make your own at home with coffee pods throughout November (which IS still autumn, btw) 🍂Oxford residents: recycle your pods via kerbside collection. Register with Podback first ♻️ podback.org/recycle-checker

Upgrading tech this Christmas? Don’t bin the old stuff. The UK dumps 11M electricals a week. Reuse (donate/swap), repair (Repair Café Oxfordshire), or recycle (Oxford: clear bag on your bin lid). Do it for the planet. 🌍 #EWaste #RecycleYourElectricals