The UK produces over 434 million tonnes of waste each year, which would fill London's Albert Hall in less than two hours. On average, each person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks. Recycling reduces energy usage and environmental impact compared to producing goods from raw materials, yet much of what could be recycled is still thrown away, like 30 million inkjet cartridges per year in the UK alone. Composting is one form of recycling everyone can do at home to reduce waste.
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A Really Rubbish Lesson Amazing Waste & Recycling Facts
1. A really rubbish lesson! Amazing facts about waste and recycling A presentation from BritishRecycledProducts.co.uk (with help from the internet!)
2. The UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of waste every year. This rate of rubbish generation would fill the Albert Hall in London in less than 2 hours.
3. On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.
4. It takes just 25 two litre drink bottles to make one adult size fleece.
5. 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials
6. As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted .
9. Container glass (bottles and jars) is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again and again and again and again forever.. .
10. It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper .
11. Every tonne of paper that's recycled can save enough energy to power a 3 bedroom house for a whole year .
12. More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone, the equivalent weight of 18 blue whales.
13. White office and typing paper are recyclable but the average office worker throws away their own weight each year.
14. We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each year. It would take you over three and a half thousand years to sing "Six Billion Green Bottles"!
15. Because of its value, gold has always been recycled. Modern jewellery and dental crowns could contain gold that was mined in prehistoric times
16. Composting is the only form of recycling that everyone can do at home.
17. The worms in compost heaps eat their body weight every 2 days.
18. Most of the car park bollards in supermarkets in the UK are made from recycled plastic waste.
19. Millions of steel cans are collected every day by huge magnets that pull them out of dustbin waste.
20. Every year UK households throw away the equivalent of 3 ½ million double-decker buses (almost 30 million tonnes), a queue of which would stretch from London to Sydney (Australia) and back.
21. We don’t know how long glass takes to break down but it is so long that glass made in the Middle East over 3000 years ago can still be found today.
22. Even with such great charity shops, Britain only recycles 2 to 4% of its clothing.
23. We bury 80% of our rubbish in landfill sites. Switzerland buries only 7%.