Facts about recycling:

• The amount of food waste that householders in the UK throw away each year is equivalent in weight to 7 million elephants!
• On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks.
• One tonne of paper made from recycled paper pulp saves 17 trees.
• It takes about 25 2-litre plastic drinks bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket.
• Every steel can is 100% recyclable.  It can be recycled over and over again into products like fridges and new cans.
• UK recycling makes a positive contribution to climate change – equivalent to taking 3.5 million cars on the road.
• Every year, the UK uses enough paper to cut down a forest the size of Wales.
• The amount of waste paper buried each year in the UK would fill 103,000 double decker buses!
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will power a computer for 20 minutes.