- Londoners produce 3.4 million tonnes of rubbish a year, which is enough to fill Canary Wharf tower every 10 days
- The energy saved by recycling one bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes
- For every tonne of paper recycled 17 trees are spared, 7000 gallons of water is saved and 4200 KWh less electricity is used
- If all the aluminium drinks cans recycled in the UK last year were laid end to end, they would stretch from John O'Groats to Land's End 140 times
- 25 plastic drinks bottles can be used to make one fleece jacket
- 1 plastic vending cup can be recycled to make a pencil
- Plastic can be recycled to make park benches, pipes, bin liners, fencing, video and compact disc cases and much much more.
- Recycling aluminium drink cans saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make aluminium from its raw materials
- The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours
- Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W light bulb for up to 6 hours
- In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall
- On average, each person in the UK uses over 200 kg of paper per year
- 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
- The UK uses 12 billion cans each year, if placed end-to-end they would reach the moon and back
- 1.5 million computers are dumped in landfill sites annually
|
Services A-Z 
