Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees!

Every year in the UK we use 13 billion steel cans which if you placed them end to end, would stretch to the moon - three times!

Every year the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television!

On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks!

In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall!

Over Christmas as much as 83 km2 of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey!

The average person gets through around 38kg of newspapers each year!