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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!

  1. Milk bottles are reused about 13 times before they’re recycled. Lets hear it for milk bottles!
  2. Nearly 60% of the aluminium used in Britain has been previously recycled, that’s a nice fact.
  3. From the energy it takes to make 1 new aluminium can, you could make 20 recycled ones.
  4. During Christmas, us Brits bin 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper. That could wrap half of Cardiff or all of Guernsey.
  5. Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown into the sea kill a million sea creatures every year.

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