London residents and the surrounding areas can celebrate Zero Waste Week by signing up to recycle “unrecyclable” items – including cheese packaging, cleaning product packaging, hair care empties and beauty products – whilst raising money for their chosen good cause in the process. The recycling programmes are run by TerraCycle and are free to sign up to. By signing up, residents can either collect and send in their waste to be recycled, or they can set up a public drop-off location and become recycling champions for their communities.

A group helping communities make money for charity from hard to recycle items is on the lookout for first time waste heroes Belfast. TerraCycle is funded by well-known brands who pay the cost of giving packaging a second life as well as monetary donations to good causes. But they have also helped save millions of items from landfill, incineration or ending up in the natural environment.

Sam Peters and Lesa Snook from Wiltshire collect “hard-to-recycle” items which aren’t accepted by the local council and send them to TerraCycle for recycling. For each item they send, they receive a monetary reward which they can donate to the charity of their choice.