Recycling has now become part of our everyday lives in the UK. With recycling collections now being largely used across the UK including the use of local tips. Recycling is a great way of helping the environment and disposing of waste in an economical way. Remember reduce, reuse, recycle! Here are some interesting facts about recycling in the UK:
1) Every year in the UK each household produces over 1 tonne of household waste, totalling to 31 million tonnes for the UK each year.
2) Each year, the average dustbin holds enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of TV.
3) Every person in the UK on average throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks.
4) The UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England) every 8 months.
5) In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough enough waste to fill the Albert Hall.
6) In the UK if all aluminium drinks cans were recycled, there would be 14 million less full dustbins per year.
7) Recycling aluminium only needs 5% of the energy it takes to make new aluminium and produces only 5% of the CO2 emissions.
8) One recycled aluminium can saves enough energy to power a TV set for three hours!
9) Each year we use approximately 13 billion steel cans, or 600 per household.
10) On average milk bottles are reused 13 times before recycling.
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