A FRESH recycling trial is to get underway this month to help the people of Gloucestershire recycle more plastics.

The Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team is working with Febreze and Tesco to help residents recycle more plastics than ever before.

From this month, people can participate in a trial to separate and recycle the trigger tops and flip caps from their home care plastic bottles, at specific large Tesco stores and household recycling centres across Gloucestershire.

Trigger tops are made from a different type of plastic to the main bottle, and often contain a metal spring that needs specialist recycling.

Steve Read, Managing Director, Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team, said: “For just a few months, we are asking residents to separate the trigger tops and flip caps from all their plastic bottles.

"People’s normal recycling collection will stay the same but this is an extra way to support recycling in the county.”

Aurelie Nomdedeu, Global Marketing Febreze, Procter & Gamble, said: “We are really pleased to support the collection and recycling of air and home care plastic packaging.

"We are encouraging residents in Gloucestershire to recycle the trigger tops from their plastic bottles, like Febreze, and give these plastics a fresh start as a new product.”

Joe Chapman, Corporate Affairs Manager – Tesco South West, said, “We are delighted to be helping people to participate in this recycling trial and proud to be supporting the community of Gloucestershire.”

Stephen Clarke, Communications Manager, TerraCycle UK, said, “For the people that don’t shop at large Tesco stores or often visit a household recycling centre, there is an alternative; simply register as a home, school or community group collector for the Air and Home Care Brigade.

“As well as being able to recycle trigger tops and flip caps, members can also recycle additional air and home care packaging, such as plastic air fresheners and flexible home cleaning wipes packs. It’s a great way of involving the community and can help raise money for schools, charities and non-profits, while helping the environment too.”

This collaborative project, managed by LRS Consultancy, involves Procter & Gamble, TerraCycle, Tesco, Somerset Waste Partnership, Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team and recycling experts WRAP who have funded the project.

The results of the collection trials will be used to help inform how services could be introduced across the UK to increase collections of packaging which is difficult to recycle.

To find out more about this recycling trial and for information on recycling arrangements across the county visit www.recycleforgloucestershire.co.uk