facts - general recycling

• Each year in the UK households throw away over 29.1 million tonnes of waste, that's the same weight as 4.85 million male African Elephants! (source: recycle-more.co.uk)
• In the UK we throw away 13 billion steel cans every year, stacked on top of each other, you could make 3 piles of cans that would reach to the moon! (source: www.scrib.org.uk)
• Each year about 600 million UK household batteries (22,000 tonnes) are sent to landfill. That's the same weight as 3,666 Tyrannosaurus Rex's (source: recycle-more.co.uk)

• The energy saved from recycling 1 glass bottle is enough a power a light bulb for four hours
• Disposable nappies take 500 years to decompose
• Producing steel from recycled material saves 75% of the energy needed if steel were made from virgin material
• If every Briton purchased one item made from recycled wool a year it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family's electricity needs (source: UK Gov)
• Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees
• The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours

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