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Did you know?

Every year we’d need a forest the size of Wales to provide all the paper we use in Britain.

We landfill around 1,400,000 tonnes of glass each year in Britain.

1/5 of household bins are paper and card. Each week that is 4kg of waste paper per home in the UK. Nearly all of this can be recycled.

Each child uses a total of 5850 nappies in their lifetime; that weighs the same as an average family car!

In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Royal Albert Hall.

The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours.

Recycling 2 glass bottles saves enough energy to boil water for 5 cups of tea.

150 million plastic carrier bags are used in the UK every week —they take up to 500 years to decay in landfill.

If all the aluminium cans sold were recycled -14 million fewer dustbins would be emptied into landfill every year.

Landfill sites released 20% of the UK's methane emissions in 2002 – get composting!

An average person throws away 74kg of food and garden waste each year – that’s 1077 banana skins.

Every year, the average dustbin contains enough unused energy for 5000 hours of TV.

Every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England)

The amount of waste paper buried each year would fill 103,448 double decker buses, which if parked nose to tail would go all the way from London to Milan.

One million tonnes of nappies are thrown away every year, that's 8 million nappies every day.