- How can I recycle?
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- in schools (+)
- in the garden (+)
- in the home
- Reusable Bag for Life
- Buy Recycled
- Become a Recycling Champion in your area
- Love Food, Hate Waste
- Join a local Freecycle group
- Donate your old furniture for reuse
- Stop unwanted junk mail
- Your guide to real nappies
- What happens to Plastic Bottles?
- Your local Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Recycling Where I Live
- Sizzling Summer recipe tips
- Recycling your electrical and electronic items
Stop unwanted junk mail
Do you receive a lot of unwanted junk mail through your letterbox?
Reducing the amount of junk mail you receive reduces the amount of waste paper that has to be disposed of and recycled.
Here's a few ways you can help to reduce your junk mail.
- Join the Mail Preference Service. By signing up to the Mail Preference Service you can have your name removed from Direct Mailing lists and thus reducing unwanted unaddressed mail. This service is free of charge and will remove your name from up to 95% of direct mail lists in the UK. Register online at mpsonline
- Reduce unaddressed junk mail by joining the Royal Mail Door to Door service. If you want to stop receiving unaddressed mail delivered to your home you can do so by contacting Royal Mail. Further details can be found by contacting Royal Mail
- Refuse leaflets and flyers. Displaying a 'No Junk Mail' sticker on your door or mail box will demonstrate your preference not to receive flyers and leaflets.
- Avoid joining mailing lists. When filling out forms or surveys tick the box stating that you do not want to receive further information or offers.
- Leave mailing lists. Contact organisations that regularly send you unwanted mail and tell them to remove your name from their lists. This is usually best done by writing a short letter or returning unopened junk mail back to sender.