top green facts

The top 10 'Green House' facts on recycling and the environment:

1. Each year in Britain, we throw away 28 million tonnes of rubbish from our homes. This weighs the same as three and a half million double decker buses. A queue of buses that long would go around the world one and a half times. (Source: The Green parent website).

2. You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one. (Source: The Green parent website).

3. The UK produces 420 million tonnes of solid waste every year. That's the weight of 5 cars for each person every year. We only recycle 11% of it. (Source: The Green parent website).

4. Incinerating 10,000 tonnes of waste creates 1 job, landfill the same amount of waste creates 6 jobs, but recycling the same 10,000 tonnes creates 36 jobs. (Source: The Green parent website).

5. In just over a week, we produce enough rubbish to fill Wembley stadium. Over half of that waste can be recycled. (Source: DETR).

6. Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees. (Source: The Green parent website).

7. Every year in the UK we use 13 billion steel cans which if you placed them end to end, would stretch to the moon - three times! (Source: Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau).

8. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle is enough to power a light bulb for four hours. (Source www.practicalhelp.org.uk).

9. Recycling one plastic bottle can save the same amount of energy needed to power a 60-watt lightbulb for six hours. (Source: Recoup).

10. We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each year. It would take you over three and a half thousand years to sing "Six Billion Green Bottles"!

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If you print the posters don't forget to recycle the paper afterwards!