Have you ever seen a recycling bin which is colour coded, only to see another shortly after with different colours?
For example, how many times have you taken a plastic bottle towards a recycling bin thinking "I'll put it in the blue bin" only to see that paper/cardboard is blue and and plastic is now green.
This is something that we think of quite often, but it was a trip to Dubai mall when 2 recycling bins less than 10m apart had different colours for each material. The video below shows this;
Don't get us started on the fact that it's just "Recyclables", that's a whole other issue. It was the fact that the recyclables had gone from Blue to Red, and even worse general waste went from Yellow to Green, a colour I think most people would associate with recycling or something more sustainable than general waste.
This triggered us to conduct a survey to find out what colour the general public associate with the following recycling categories:
Plastic
Paper
Cardboard
Glass
eWaste
Aluminium
Metal
Fabric
The results are in and being analysed and we'll be posting them on our Instagram page.
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