Waste Recycling Facts
Don’t send your waste to landfill ...
- There are 2,300 landfill sites in the UK. Existing landfills are predicted to be full within 5-10 years
Think about the packaging you use ...
- Each year food shops give away enough carrier bags to cover the whole of London with a layer of bags.
Encourage your staff to Recycle .. did you know?
- Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in landfill (being buried) - that's one and a half cans per person. (source: Waste Watch)
- Every year the average British family throws away 6 trees worth of paper (source: Waste Watch)
- We produce and use 20 times more plastic today than we did in the 1950's! (source: Waste Watch)
- Producing steel from recycled materials saves 75% of the energy needed to make steel from virgin materials. (source: Eco Schools)
- On average, every family in the UK consumes around 330 glass bottles and jars a year. (British Glass)
- If all the aluminium cans in the UK were recycled you would fill 12 Million dustbins every year
Facts about wastes we produce
- Paper - Paper made from recycled paper uses 70% less energy
- Glass - Annually, total glass use in the UK is estimated at around 3.6 million tonnes.
- Plastics - In Britain we use about 275,000 tonnes of plastic bottles in our homes every year
- Aluminium cans - the average household uses about 208 aluminium cans a year
- Paper - Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees
Each year in Britain, we throw away 28 million tonnes of rubbish from home. This weighs the same as three and a half million double Decker buses. A queue of buses that long would go around the world one and a half times. (source: Waste Watch)
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