An average person throws away 74kg of organic waste each year, which is the same as 1,077 banana skins.
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 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'! 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!
Recycling waste materials supports about six times as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the
same materials were treated as trash.
The oil equivalent of 35 Exxon Valdez tankers is dumped into our nation’s rivers, lakes, and streams
every year! And used motor oil is far more deadly than crude oil ...
The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.
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