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The Basic Facts
  • Recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
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  • 1 recycled glass bottle will save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
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  • 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a light bulb for 3 hours.
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  • 70% less energy is needed to recycle paper as oppose to making it from raw materials
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Plastic Recycling Facts
  • 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used each year in the UK. That is around 15 million plastic bottles per day.
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  • The rate of plastic use within Western Europe is growing at around 4% per annum. That might not sound a lot but that means within 20 years we will have doubled our current plastic use.
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  • Plastic can take up to 500 years to fully decompose.
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  • Plastic items such as carrier bags and bottles that end up in our oceans kill approximately 1,000,000 sea creatures each and every year.
Paper Recycling Facts
  • Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution that if it was made from raw materials.
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  • It takes 24 trees to make just 1 ton of newspaper. If we only used raw materials that would mean chopping down 300 million trees every year in the UK alone
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  • Each tonne of recycled paper will save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic meters of landfill space, 4000 KW of energy and 7000 gallons of water.
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  • The amount of waste paper sent to landfill each year would fill 103,000 double decker buses
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