Recycle Week 2024

Rescue Me, Recycle

Recycle Week runs from 14 to 20 October 2024 and this year has the theme "Rescue Me, Recycle”. The main aim of the campaign is to highlight common types of recyclable waste that residents often don’t recycle and ask them to “Rescue” at least one of these recyclable items from their rubbish bin.

Although Oxfordshire has the highest recycling rate of any County Council area in the country at nearly 60% around half of the average rubbish bin is made up of items that could have been recycled.

Design a Recycling Superhero to win a water bottle

For Recycle Week, we're running a Design Activity and Prize Draw for Oxfordshire residents. To take part, entrants need to design a Recycling Superhero character to rescue recyclable items from the rubbish bin.

You can enter by sending us your design until midnight on 20 October 2024.

50 entrants who submit a design will be selected at random to receive an "Oxfordshire Reuses" aluminium water bottle and some other waste reducing goodies.

If you submit your design before 14 October, we may also use it in some of our social media posts during Recycle Week to help inspire others to recycle. See the terms and conditions below for more information about this.

How to enter online

Enter by sending your picture by direct message to one of our social media channels by midnight on 20 October 2024. You can enter using the following channels:

• @OxfordshireRecycles on Facebook
• @OxonRecycles on X

You can also email your entry to waste.management@oxfordshire.gov.uk 

Your entry should include the words “Design a Recycling Superhero” in the message or subject and must include your name and address in the message. Ask a parent/guardian to submit this for you if you're under 16.

Full terms and conditions for the “Design a Recycling Superhero” Design Activity and Prize Draw

• Oxfordshire Recycles is running a Design Activity and Prize Draw for Oxfordshire residents to take part in. 
• No purchase is necessary. The Design Activity and Prize Draw are free to enter and open to all ages.
• The opening date for entries is 9am on Monday 30 September 2024 or as soon as they are available in each individual branch. 
• The closing date for entries is midnight on Sunday 20 October 2024. Late entries will not be considered
• Entrants must be Oxfordshire residents.
• Entries for entrants under 16 years of age must be submitted on their behalf by a parent or guardian.
• Participants in the Design Activity must design a Recycling Superhero. The character must fit with the national Recycle Week campaign for 2024 which has the central message/strapline “Rescue Me, Recycle”. 
• The national campaign uses five cartoon characters designed to represent five items of household waste that are often thrown in the rubbish bin but could have been recycled.
• The Recycling Superhero designed for the Design Activity must be a character who will rescue these items from the rubbish bin.
• The Recycling Superhero can be drawn by hand using pen, pencil, crayon, junk modelling or other medium. The Recycling Superhero can also be designed using a computer application but must be an original work.
• Recycling Superhero designs must not adapt stock images of existing characters or use generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to create a character.
• Designs must not introduce, integrate or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory and/or libelous, vulgar, obscene, damaging to other’s privacy, racist, classist or discriminate against any protected characteristics as set out in The Equality Act 2010.
• The design must not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other industrial and/or intellectual property rights of third parties.
• In submitting a design, copyright and all other rights to the design remain with the entrant. However, all entrants understand and agree that any design submitted may be used by any of the six Oxfordshire Councils and their relevant partner organisations involved in waste and recycling, for example CAG Oxfordshire, to help promote recycling in Oxfordshire for Recycle Week 2024 and relevant future campaigns for a maximum of 12 months from the Prize Draw closing date.
• There are several ways Oxfordshire residents can take part in the Design Activity and enter the Prize Draw:
  • Send an electronic copy of their Recycling Superhero design as an attachment by direct message to the Oxfordshire Recycles Facebook or Oxon Recycles X accounts or any other social media account used to advertise the Design Activity and Prize Draw by any of the Oxfordshire authorities. The message should start with the words “Design a Recycling Superhero”.
  • Email the design attached as a JPG, PNG or other suitable image format emailed to waste.management@oxfordshire.gov.uk or any other email address included by any of the partner authorities in their promotion of the Design Activity and Prize Draw. The email should have the subject “Design a Recycling Superhero”
  • Submit a hard copy of the design to any Oxfordshire library
• Each design and Prize Draw entry made via social media account or by email must include your name and address (including postcode). If the design has been created by someone under the age of 16, these details must be for a parent or guardian.
• For entries submitted at libraries, these details should be written on the entry form, which can be found on the reverse side of the design template. Entries at libraries should also include a contact telephone number and/or an email address.
• The information provided by entrants will only be used to administer the Prize Draw. All information will be held in accordance with the council’s Privacy Policy which can be viewed at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/privacynotice 
• Information about entrants will be deleted 12 months after the Prize Draw, once consent to use images for recycling promotions has expired in accordance with these terms and conditions.
• For the Prize Draw, if 50 or fewer entries are submitted, all entrants will receive a prize. If more than 50 entries are submitted, Oxfordshire Recycles will select 50 entries at random from all entries received by the deadline.
• These selected entries – provided they meet these terms and conditions - will receive an “Oxfordshire Reuses” refillable water bottle and a selection of other items to reduce waste and recycle more.
• It won’t be possible to notify all Prize Draw winners of the outcome other than through the delivery of the prize, which will be hand delivered or sent by post to the address provided with the entry. Items will be posted or hand delivered by Monday 4 November.
• No cash alternatives are available, and we reserve the right to substitute the advertised prize for another of equal or greater value should the original become unavailable.
• Winners’ names are available on written request after the closing date to waste.management@oxfordshire.gov.uk marked for the attention of Mark Watson, with the subject “Design a Recycling Superhero activity – winners names”.
• The Design Activity and Prize Draw is organized by Oxfordshire Recycles – a partnership of the waste and recycling teams at the six councils in Oxfordshire – Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council, Cherwell District Council, South Oxfordshire District Council, Vale of White Horse District Council, West Oxfordshire District Council.
• Oxfordshire Recycles reserves the right to cancel or amend this Prize Draw due to events arising beyond its control. Oxfordshire Recycles nor its agents are responsible for third party acts or omissions.
• Employees of the Recycling or Waste Management Teams at Oxfordshire Recycles’ partner councils, agents, their families or anyone professionally connected to the promotion are not eligible to enter the Prize Draw.
• By entering this Prize Draw, an entrant is indicating their agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
• The promoter of this Prize Draw is Oxfordshire County Council, whose decision regarding any aspect of this Prize Draw shall be final and no correspondence will be entered into.