Recycling facts and figures
Recycling facts and figures are hitting the UK market at a regular rate and surprising many people along the way. Some of the more interesting facts which have caught the attention include:-
One recycled glass bottle can save sufficient energy to run a computer for 25 minutes.
More than 60% of the rubbish in your bin can be recycled but the figure in the UK is significantly lower at the moment.
Recycled paper uses only 30% of the energy used when creating paper from natural materials.
When visiting your local supermarket remember that 16% of the cost of a product on average goes on the packaging.
Until the introduction of the UK car scrappage system there was very little recycling of motor vehicles or motor parts. Thankfully this is now changing and the recycling of motor components and motor vehicles is becoming more and more popular.
The recycling process for an aluminium can is only six weeks from being binned to being back on the shelves.
Glass which is thrown away and ends up in landfills has been known to last thousands upon thousands of years without decomposing.
One ton newspaper takes the equivalent of 24 trees to produce.