Each year the UK generates about 100 million tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry combined but the majority of this still ends up in landfill. (Source: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs)
It has been estimated that up to 80% of the contents of our dustbins could be recycled or composted. (Source: www.recyclezone.org.uk)
Research has revealed that UK shoppers use 13,000 carrier bags in their lifetimes, as the Government and the British Retail Consortium launch a campaign to encourage bag reuse. A survey of shoppers found that on average we use over 160 new carrier bags each year, at least 400 a year for the average household. (Source: www.mrw.co.uk)
On average, each person in the UK throws away seven times their own body weight (about 500kg) in rubbish every year. (Source: www.wasteonline.org.uk)
Every year each person produces four times as much packaging waste as their luggage allowance on a jumbo jet. (Source: www.wasteonline.org.uk)
Around a third of all the food we buy gets thrown away. If we stopped wasting food it would have the same impact as taking one in five cars off UK roads. (Source: www.lovefoodhatewaste.com)
Around 600 million UK household batteries – weighing the equivalent of 110 Jumbo Jets – are sent to landfill unnecessarily every year. (Source: Waste & Resources Action Programme)
Waste typically costs up to 4% of a company’s turnover. (Source: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs)
About 98 per cent of FTSE-listed companies now mention the word environment in their annual reports and accounts. (Source: Environment Agency)
Computers account for 39% of electronic waste. (Source: Environmental Services Association)
