Save Trees, Dolphins and Stuff.
Did you know that:
- On average every person in the UK uses about 290 plastic shopping bags, most of which eventually end up in landfill sites.
- We currently recycle 33 per cent of our household waste in the UK. We could recycle 73 per cent.
- If every one of us recycled just one more glass jar each week, we would save enough energy to power more than 12,500 plasma TV screens for a year.
- 40 per cent of the UK's methane emissions are caused by landfill sites.
- We use more than 20 times more plastic now than we did 50 years ago.
- If every person in England recycled just one more aluminium can each week, we'd save 332,599 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking 105,000 cars off the road for a year.
- You can visit www.recyclenow.com, enter your postcode and find out more about recycling in your local area.
- You can also visit www.bargainbooze.co.uk to find your local store and buy a lovely bag. Money raised from the sale of these bags goes to support the work of Keep Britain Tidy.