Young Recyclers
Calling all young recyclers! Find out more about recycling with our wacky waste
facts and learn more about recycling with these practical activities-ideal for at home during the holidays.
Wacky Waste Facts
- Every year we need a forest the size of Wales to provide all the paper we use in Britain.
- We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each year. It would take you over three and a half thousand years to sing 'Six Billion Green Bottles'.
- An average person throws away 74kg of organic waste each year, which is the same as 1,077 banana skins.
- Every year in Britain, we throw away 28 million tonnes of rubbish from home. This weighs the same as three and a half million double decker buses. A queue of buses that long would go around the world one and a half times.
- The amount of waste paper buried each year would fill 103,448 double decker buses, which if parked nose to tail would go all the way from London to Milan.
- Each year food shops give away enough carrier bags to cover the whole of London with a layer of bags.
- Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in landfill - that's one and a half cans per person. In a year, each person could fill a bath with the contents of these cans.
- We fill about 300 million square metres of land with rubbish every year - that's the same as covering the pitch at Old Trafford, Manchester United Football Club's ground, 28,450
times. To walk around the pitch that many times would take you from midnight on 1 January until midday on 5 May.
- In the 1950s the world made less than 5 million tonnes of plastic products. This has increased to about 80 million tonnes today. We produce and use 20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years ago.
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Please call Customer Contact at North Dorset District Council on (01258) 454111 or email
recycling@north-dorset.gov.uk
for further information. |
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