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Did you know?

• Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year (source: Waste Watch)

• On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks (source: Waste Watch)

• Every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England) (source: Waste Watch)

• Rubbish collection and keeping our streets clean costs council tax payers about £1.6 billion per year (source: UK Gov)

• In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall
  (source: Waste Watch)

• If all the aluminium drinks cans sold in the UK were recycled, there would be 14 million fewer full dustbins per year (source: www.alupro.org.uk ) 

• If all of the aluminium cans recycled in the UK in 1998 were laid end to end, they would stretch from Land's End to John O'Groats more than 160 times (source: www.alupro.org.uk)

• Glass can be recycled again and again without losing its clarity or purity (source: www.britglass.org.uk)

• Probably the most important thing about recycling glass is the energy saving – when using recycled glass to make new containers, 315Kg of CO2 is saved for every tonne of recycled glass used.

• Over Christmas as much as 83 km2 of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey (source: Waste Watch)

• On average, each person in the UK uses over 200 kg of paper per year. 61 % of this is recycled, however 79 % is realistically achievable.