A great day to celebrate some creative thinking from businesses all around the world🎉🎉

Check out some of these great ideas :

Milk + Blush have set up a new scheme to get their customers to send back their old hair extensions - these will then be sent over to the USA to the charity Matter of Trust.  They use hair extensions to soak up oil spills but placing them in storm drains - Great idea & does a small part in reducing our landfill - check it out 👍

Stay Wild sell a beautiful  range of eco swimwear, made using  ECONYL®  which is derived from unwanted waste such as old fishing nets.  Today though we are highlighting the Stay Wild circularity project. They are asking their customers to send back their old swimwear once worn down or broken.  The old swimwear will then be recycled and repurposed into eco-industrial products such as eco-carpet underlay - check it out  👍

Shed1Gin produces award-winning, small-batch, classically distilled craft gin with a contemporary-style.  Beyond making the gin, this company has lots of lovely recycling projects - there is the ingenious Marmalade Fund, making marmalade from the waste citrus fruit, they encourage customers to recycle with a bottle and jar returns scheme and also the company shreds all their cardboard to be used as packing for their online orders - check it out  👍

Tropic’s Colour Palette make up range is based on the design of a refill system, using product pans that can be bought individually.  The product pans are made of aluminium, which is infinitely recyclable. The process of recycling aluminium saves around 95% of the energy needed to make the metal new from raw materials and it can be repeated infinitely without any loss of quality. Every time a customer refills their palette with award-winning eyeshadows, blushers and bronzers, they’re making a sustainable choice.   To date, the Colour Palette has stopped over 10 tonnes of plastic waste from being generated, compared to our previous makeup range - check it out 👍

Over the years of following the world of recycling, it does seem that as well as recycling being a very practical practical manufacturing process, this all would not happen without some inspiring creative and ingenious ideas at its heart.  For me, this makes it such an exciting process.  Once you enter the world of recycling, you start noticing that ideas literately pop into your head  on the secondary use for something. My garden is full of old wash basins and sinks, frying pans and an old BBQ tray.  Their second life is as as bird baths and pools for the frogs and I have an old broken garden chair working as a bench for some veg pot.  My proudest moment - putting my dog’s hair sweepings out for the birds, then seeing dog hair in a nest🎉  It was a joyous thing to see.