
As part of Recycling Week 2018 (September 24 to September 30), East Cambridgeshire District Council is supporting a nationwide campaign MetalMatters to help increase the rate of recycling household metal throughout the district.

MetalMatters is managed by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). Through this campaign, it aims to reassure residents that they can recycle all metal packaging found around their home, including drink cans, food tins, aluminium foil, empty aerosols and metal lids from jars.
To promote activities of the campaign will include sending leaflets to every home and displaying information throughout the district. Two local schools within the district will also participate in MetalMatters workshops.
Director of East Cambs Street Scene, Jo Brooks, said: "In East Cambridgeshire alone we use over a million cans, foil trays and aerosols every year.”
Recycling used metal packaging into new products save a lot of cost than making them from raw materials. At the same time, it protects the environment. For instance, making drinks cans from recycled materials saves up to 95 per cent of the energy and greenhouse gas emissions needed to make both aluminium and steel from raw materials.
The campaign MetalMatters forms part of the district-wide partnership and will see Peterborough City Council and Huntingdonshire District Council launch their campaigns on the same day.
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