- A typical household produces one tonne of waste every year, the majority of which could be reused and recycled
- We use over 6 billion glass bottles and jars
- We need a forest the size of Wales to provide all the paper we use
- An average person throws away 74kg of organic waste, the equivalent of 1,077 banana skins
- One million tonnes of nappies are thrown away, that’s 8 million nappies every day.
Each child uses a total of 5,850 nappies in their lifetime; that weighs the same as an average family car!
- We throw away 28 million tonnes of rubbish from home. This weighs the same as 3.5 million double decker buses
- We use 7 billion plastic carrier bags, more than 300 for every household
- We fill about 300 million square metres of land with rubbish
- Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in landfill - that’s 1.5 cans per person.
In a year each person could fill a bath with the contents of these cans!
Recycling YOUR waste:
- Saves the earth’s natural resources.
- Saves energy and reduces the risk of global warming.
- Reduces the need for landfill.
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