About National Recycling Week

NRW 2011 Poster - Click to download

In November 1996, Planet Ark founded National Recycling Week as a community education and media campaign. The aim was to bring a national focus to recycling and the broader themes of minimising waste and managing material resources.

Now in its 16th year, National Recycling Week (NRW) is an established and highly regarded annual education and behaviour change campaign. National Recycling Week aims to improve the environmental benefits of kerbside, industrial and community recycling programs.

In 2011, NRW focussed on four campaign streams:

Engaging students in learning about the environmental benefits of recycling, through the Schools Recycle Right Challenge.
Increasing the number of businesses and workplaces involved in recycling, principally through the promotion of the Friday File Fling.
Promoting community re-use and recycling initiatives, particularly through promotion of council, school and workplace-based Swap Parties as part of the Big Aussie Swap.
Improving the understanding of kerbside recycling, principally through an educative Recycle Right Quiz hosted on RecyclingWeek.PlanetArk.org

NRW 2011 also aimed to increase access to accurate recycling information through the RecyclingNearYou Website and Hotline (1300 733 712).

National Recycling Week provides us all with an opportunity to move towards avoiding waste through building on our daily habits to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle at home, at work and in the community.

NRW Dates:

NRW 2011 ran from Monday 7 - Sunday 13 November, 2011.

NRW 2012 runs from Monday 12 – Sunday 18 November 2012.