Why is recycling and caring for our environment so important? Loads of useful facts and figures to help make the case, reinforcing just how much waste we produce and the difference being eco-friendly can make. Did you know that every year the UK produces enough rubbish to fill Loch Lomond - our nation's largest lake!? What about the fact that if you chuck away glass, it will never decompose? Check out what makes recycling so economically and environmentally sensible.

1. Our
Environment
The Facts

2. Moray Waste
• Landfill tax - £64 per tonne, rising
by £8 each year…
• Audit of one ‘waste’ skip @
Chanonry discovered 30% of
material could have been recycled
• Estimated £1300 wasted every
week – enough to fund three extra
home carers…

4. Recycling
• Recycling aluminium is 20 times
more efficient than making it from
the raw material, bauxite (Alupro).
• Over 9000kg of CO² equivalents are
saved by recycling 1000kg of
aluminium cans compared to
sending them to landfill.
• Source: zerowastescotland.gov.uk

6. British Glass
• Every UK household uses on
average 331 bottles and jars per year
• Recycling one glass bottle saves
enough energy to power your
computer for 25 minutes
• Glass can be recycled again and
again, without any loss in quality
• Glass thrown away will NEVER decompose

7. Recycling

9. Paper
• On average, the production of 100%
recycled paper saves 1.32 tonnes
of CO² equivalent
• Takes just seven days for old
magazines and newspapers to be
recycled into new ones
• WRAP website – Working Together
for a World without Waste

10. Recycling Paper

11. Facts!
• 1 recycled tin saves enough energy
to power a television for 3 hours
• 1 recycled glass bottle saves enough
energy to power a PC for 25 minutes
• 1 recycled plastic bottle saves enough
energy for a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours
• 70% less energy is required to recycle
paper than production from raw materials
• unreleased energy in an average dustbin
each year could power 5,000 hours of TV!

12. • Up to 60% of the rubbish in the
average dustbin could be recycled.
• Britain’s largest lake (Lomond) could
be filled with UK rubbish in 8 months.
• On average, 16% of the money you
spend on a product pays for the
packaging, which ends up as rubbish.
• As much as 50% of waste in the
average dustbin could be composted.
• Up to 80% of a car can be recycled.

13. Loch Lomond

14. Plastics
• 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used
each year in the UK, that’s about 15
million bottles per day.
• Most families throw away about
40kg of recyclable plastic per year
• Use of plastic in Western Europe is
growing about 4% each year
• Plastic takes up to 500 years to
decompose

15. topographical shade canopy for a
vehicle created by Garth Britzman
with recycled bottles filled with
coloured water…

16. Forestry Commission
• £650 million industry with 10,500 jobs
in mills, transport & management

17. Go Green!