Campaigns – Recycling and waste:

Recycling has been difficult on the Isle of Man until recently. We’ve had a few recycling bring-banks and a couple of independent recyclers.
Most of our waste went to landfill until the energy-from-waste plant (the incinerator) was built. Now most of it is burnt.
Kerbside recycling was finally introduced for Braddan, Douglas and Onchan a few years ago. Onchan later dropped out of the scheme.

We want to see less packaging – and therefore less waste – created in the first place.

What is IoM FoE doing?

• We are campaigning for kerbside recycling collections from all homes around the Isle of Man.
• We are also proposing a small plastic bag tax as an disincentive for using so many – around 150 per Person per Year in the UK! The UK introduced a tax 2015, the Isle of Man still lets the Plastic Bags fly free.

Helpful links regarding reycling:

List of public recycling sites

List of civic amenity sites

If you want to find further information on how to recycle specific items visit the great group Zero Waste Mann

Where does eco-sand come from?

If you want to know what happens to the glass collected for recycling on the Isle of Man click here