Recycle Week: understanding how and why we use single-use plastic

09 Feb 2022

It's Recycle Week from 7 - 11 February

What happens to the things we put in our recycling bins? Why can’t we recycle certain items? Why do we still use so much plastic, and what can we do to help?  

We’ve put these questions, plus more, to a panel of experts and we look forward to sharing their answers and interviews with you during our online Recycle Week, 7-11 February 2022. 

In this video, PhD student Zoé Schyns answers what happens to the waste products of plastic recycling.

Follow our social media channels from 7 February to find out more @UoMSust and for more information on how waste is managed at our University, go to our website. You can also watch more videos on YouTube.

If there are any questions you'd like to ask that haven't been answered, please send them to es@manchester.ac.uk.