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As being one of the most picturesque cities in central Europe, Ljubljana is one of the world's greenest cities and it even won the European Green Capital in 2016

Blackburn has joined forces with Darwen Council have asked residents to take part in a festive competition which will give them a chance to win cash prizes but will also help educate residents in recycling. 

In the news this week there is a focus on two toy companies joining Terracycles toy recycling program in a bid to make toys more sustainable

This week's stories making the headlines focus around Christmas trees and specifically around the Compton care hospice charity

Due to the announcement of lockdown number 2 - the recycling challenge for this month would be to aim to reduce the amount of food waste that is generated and this article helps to try and offer solutions

Ikea are launching a furniture buy back scheme, customers can now return their old Ikea furniture for a voucher for up to 50% of the original selling value to be used in store against new furniture

Network Rail are just about to launch a new campaign for coffee cup recycling in their stations, during the pandemic the amout of users reduced but now customers are on the rise making this a perfect time for this initiave to be launched

Ever since lockdown there has been an increase in the sales of electronics and to prove this a e-waste recycling centre in Ireland has had its busiest month in 15 years 

In the news this week, L'Oreal are looking at launching their very own Make Up Recycling Scheme, the beauty industry alone creates 120 billion units of packaging globally each year.

The top headline this week is based around batteries and how they can be successfully recycled or recharged.