Save the world while eating biscuits

The Rotary Club of Luton Someries is asking people to help win the McVitie’s national biscuit wrapper roundup.

The recyclying fundraising competition goes on for six months, and the top 20 collectors who save the most used biscuit wrapers from landfill will share chairty prizes of £1000.

Steven Pattenden from the Rotary Club said: “We recently joined the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade and are looking to make a real impact in the Biscuit Wrapper Roundup Collection Contest. Together we can save considerably more used biscuit wrappers and coffee packaging from landfill which is good for the local environment.”

Simply drop off your used biscuit wrappers at the collection boxes at Double S Travel in Talbot Road, Round Green, between 9am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

You can also recycle coffee bags, sticks and plastic jar lids there which would otherwise end up in landfill.

Biscuit wrappers are recyclable but very little mixed plastic recycling is carried out by local council kerb side collections, as they do not have the infrastructure.

This results in billions of biscuit wrappers needlessly being sent to UK landfill which prompted McVitie’s and recycling experts TerraCycle to join together in June 2012 to launch an innovative solution for UK consumers in the form of the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade.

The scheme encourages consumers across the UK to help end this enormous waste of resources, by using freepost labels to send in any brand of used biscuit wrappers to be recycled into everyday products such as watering cans, garden benches and waste bins.

Anyone interested in entering the Biscuit Wrapper Roundup Collection Contest simply goes to www.terracycle.co.uk and joins the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade. Freepost labels can then be downloaded to send in shipments of used biscuit wrappers. Regular Top Twenty Leaderboards and Facebook updates will be made throughout the contest by TerraCycle so participants can see how well they are doing.