Filthy Facts
Here’s the lazyman’s approach to learning about recycling. It’s a fact-burst. We’ve found these facts, just lying about different places, brushed them off and polished them up. Recycling at its best. Here they are, all in one place for your informational enjoyment. Recycle them again by telling people about them. Enjoy!
- Recycling one plastic bottle can save the same amount of energy needed to power a 60-watt lightbulb for six hours. (Source: Recoup)
- The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle is enough to power a light bulb for four hours. (Source www.practicalhelp.org.uk)
- 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)
- Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees. (Source: The Green parent website)
- In just over a week, we produce enough rubbish to fill Wembley stadium. Over half of that waste can be recycled. (Source: DETR)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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. (Source: The Green parent website)
- Printer Cartridges. They can take 6 pints of oil to make.
- In the tonne of waste your house makes every year, there’s enough unreleased energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television!
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