Recycling Encouraged via Post System

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The UK's major recycling site - recyclenow.com has joined forced with Royal Mail to produce the first ever cancellation mark showing the sites logo and web address.

The cancellation mark can be seen up by the stamp on your letters and is printed as the letter goes through the sorting machines to show the stamp has been used - or cancelled.

This is a huge effort to make people aware of the site and indeed encourage them to recycle at home and will hopefully have a great effect, as letters with the stamp on should fall through between 6 and 7 million letterboxes each day. The campaign has been running since the 8th May and will continue until 18th June so look out for the recycling stamp on your post.


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#2 If the post office want to cut waste they could stop posting all the junk mail.
Posted by Graham Harding on 17/01/2007 at 22:58
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#1 Good for you !!
Before retiring last year I was in charge of recycling and refuse collection at a local authority, and we used the same technique on our outgoing franked mail.
It behoves us all to recycle as much as possible, and I wonder if everyone realises that under a European Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) if we fail in this country to meet stringent and ongoing landfill reduction targets by 2010, this country will be fined £180 million per annum by the EU. This equates to £3 each year for every man, woman and child in this country !!!
Basically, the message is that if you don't recycle it is literally going to cost you !!
Posted by Peter Staveley on 31/05/2006 at 13:51
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