A new Islington Council door-knocking campaign is encouraging residents to recycle even more as Islington Council announced this week that household recycling reached an all time high of 26 per cent in January.<br><br>Uniformed staff will be visiting homes on estates and flats above shops to promote recycling and remind people of the council's extensive doorstep recycling collection services.<br><br>Cllr Lucy Watt, Executive Member for Environment, Islington Council said: "Residents are making a huge difference to the amount we recycle - reducing the amount of material we send to landfill.<br><br>"But not everyone recycles everything they could. We see education as key to making real and sustainable change to people's behaviour. So I'm delighted that this campaign - like our recycling service - is bringing the green message quite literally to people's doorsteps.<br><br>"With recycling made this easy, there's really no excuse not to do your bit.<br><br>"Islington's recycling rate hit an all time high of 26per cent in January 2007 - we're doing more than many other London boroughs to be cleaner and greener."<br> <br>Local resident Jenna-Lee Anderson of Highbury N5, said: "It was really informative to talk to someone about recycling. Although I recycle quite a lot it's great to have an expert on hand to tell me what else I can recycle and give me some other ideas on how to reduce the amount of rubbish I throw away."<br><br>Islington had the fastest improving recycling rate of any London borough in 2005/6. The increase was due to the council expanding and improving recycling services for kitchen and green waste, extendingservices to estates, student halls of residence and flats above shops. <br><br>ENDS
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