Waste Facts

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No 71: 1 litre of oil can pollute 1 million litres of fresh drinking water.

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No 70: A spider wastes nothing. Its web contains a protein, so as it climbs back up a strand it eats it, recycling as it goes.

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No 69: "Re-using waste items could reduce the UK's reliance on raw materials by as much as 20% by 2020".

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No 68: "Every tonne of food waste generates 4.5 tonnes of CO2"

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No 67: "Just 14% of office desks and chairs are reused in the UK each year."

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No 66: "Since 2009 is has been illegal to landfill plasterboard".

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No 65: "The demand for recycled, secondary sources of aggregate has doubled in the last 20 years"

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No 64:"It is estimated that over Christmas as much as 83 sq km of wrapping paper will end up in bins enough to cover Hyde Park 33 times"

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No 63: "Commercial, industrial and construction businesses account for over 85% of UK's waste"

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No 62: "Nearly 50 million tonnes of concrete and stone are recycled each year in the UK"

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No 61: "Only 15% of aluminium foil packaging is recycled in the UK"

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No: 60: "5 out of every 6 glass bottles used in the UK are thrown straight into the dustbin"

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No 59: "In the UK at least £10 billion worth of food that could have been eaten is thrown out every year"

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No 58: "Aluminium recycling is 20% below its UK target in the first half of 2015"

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No 57: "There are over 1,500 landfill sites in the UK, and in 2001, these sites produced a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas"

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No 56: "UK's recycling rate has increased the fastest in Europe over past decade"

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No 55: "Over 300,000 tonnes of waste plasterboard is generated each year in the UK"

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No 54: "1 recycled glass bottle would save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes"

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No 53: "Landfill tax rose from £80 to £82.60 per tonne in April"

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No 52: "Over 2/3rds of concrete and stone is recycled in the UK"