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who makes rubbish?
Everybody makes rubbish. Each week the average family in a developed country gets through 4 glass bottles or jars, 13 cans, 3 plastic bottles and 5 kilograms of paper. That means that every day, a total of about 8,000 tonnes of rubbish is thrown away by families in England and Wales - that amount of rubbish is the same weight as 1,600 African elephants!
The amount of rubbish is growing every year. In the year 2000, we threw away 1.4 million more tonnes of rubbish than the year before (1999). The good news is that more of this is being recycled than ever before. However, this still leaves a lot of rubbish that we have to burn (incinerate) or bury (landfill).
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Have a look at the picture of the dustbin that shows the sort of rubbish that goes into the average family's dustbin.
To view the proportion of packaging rubbish click on the dustbin.
Total dustbin content = 16kg
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