Recycle Week: Celebrate Recycling

The primary purpose of Recycle Week is to promote recycling and how it helps us implement a positive change on our planet. It’s an annual eco event in the promotional calendar of companies, business owners, community groups and local authorities across the UK where they promote recycling to their users, customers, and residents.

A report from WRAP shows that 82% of people changed their attitude toward recycling and a single use of plastic after taking part in Recycle Week. It aims to get the public to recycle more and spread awareness. The week also challenges perceptions and myths around recycling and to improve recycling behaviours.

This awareness event takes place annually in September. See the Recycle Week website for the latest dates and theme. 

Promote Recycle Week with Recycled & Green Giveaways

Sow Easy has taken a stand in the last 30 years and has worked directly with retail wholesalers, distributors, and marketing agencies to lead the way in real, sustainable change. This has been achieved by reducing single-use plastics and using recyclable materials in our products wherever possible.

Many of our innovative and eco-friendly promotional products & corporate gifts are manufactured with recycled post-consumer paper. We use biodegradable soy and vegetable ink to ensure no poisonous chemicals are left in the environment. Our products leave behind plants only!

Any business that is authentic about its environmental values and wants to reduce its ecological footprint should choose Sow Easy products to express its sustainability awareness and stance on climate change.

Be a Recycling Hero with Seedsticks

 

Heroes genuinely care about others and our planet. Show your clients you care about the planet’s safety with our hero product Seedsticks®.

Manufactured using 100% recycled FSC-certified board, vegetable and soy inks and non-toxic glue, this memorable giveaway leaves little waste behind.

Our Wheelie Bin-shaped Seedsticks are the ideal fit for Recycle Week. Perfect for employee engagement or consumer promotions, it’s a handy reminder that waste needs to be disposed of correctly. It can also be used to promote specialist recycling services, recycling charities and local authorities’ waste collection.

Print on all sides in full colour for brand messaging. Seedsticks are Made in Britain, so get even more eco brownie points for reduced air miles and carbon emissions!

Seed Paper Postcards made from Recycled Waste

Seed Paper Postcards are perfect for communicating a company’s leave-no-waste-behind stance. A sustainable approach to marketing and promotions, these sustainable postcards are made from recycled paper made from post-consumer waste.  According to recycling experts, reprocessing one tonne of wastepaper saves at least 30,000 litres of water and up to 4,000 kWh of electricity. Print with your brand details, then after use, rip it up, plant and grow it.

Team Seed Paper Postcards with Seed Paper Envelopes for sustainable direct mail campaigns. They are 100% biodegradable, leaving no waste behind at all!  Made from recycled paper, helping to save trees, which are vital to the sustainability of the planet.

Reduce Carbon with the Air Purifier Cube Garden

One of the reasons we recycle is to reduce CO2, as it saves 18 million tonnes of CO2 annually in the UK.  Our desktop kits and gardens align perfectly – it’s well known that plants reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Indoor plants absorb more carbon dioxide, meaning less indoor air pollution.

The beautifully designed desktop cubes should be used as a promotional product and corporate gift. The wooden cube is 100% compostable and fits perfectly on tables or windowsills, improving air quality and brightening up the space.

With a custom-designed sleeve and sticker, this product provides a great canvas for brand messages. Growing plants brings happiness, and recipients will associate this feeling with your client’s brand.

Want to Promote Recycle Week?

Recycle Week usually takes place in September. If you’d like products delivered in time for Recycle Week, it takes from 1 week to 3 weeks (depending on product selected and quantity required),  from ordering to delivery, so be sure to leave plenty of time for your order. If you are short on time, we do offer an Express Service.

We offer a free design service, so even if you don’t have a designer, we can help. It’s a win-win for your company – just ask when making your initial inquiries with us.

Download your free copy of the Sow Easy Eco-friendly Promotional Product Catalogue today and make your choice or call us on 01753 644 588 for more information.

 

Why Brands Should Get Real about Improving the Environment

In a report produced by First Insight and the Baker Retailing Centre at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, when consumers were asked why they would rather purchase sustainable products, most of them claimed that a desire to help the environment was the primary reason why they did.

According to Deloitte, nearly 1 in 3 consumers in the UK claimed to have stopped purchasing certain brands or products because they had ethical or sustainability-related concerns about them. Consumers are more environmentally focused than ever, so must business owners be.

Our green and eco promotional products can benefit clients and visibly align them with this high-profile national event.

 

[Written August 2022 | Updated May 2025]