Interesting Facts
-The energy saving from recycling one plastic bottle can power a 100 watt
light bulb for almost an hour.
-The largest glass furnaces produce more than 400 tonnes - more than 1 million
bottles each day!
-One recycled aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for
three hours!
-On average each household uses 15 bottles everyday - that's about 275,000
bottles every year!
- Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to light a 100 watt
light bulb for 20 hours!
-By recycling your daily newspaper you will have saved more than your own body
weight in paper within a year!
- If everyone recycled all their aluminum cans there would be 14 million fewer
dustbins to be land filled every year!
-It takes just 25 pop bottles to make one fleece jacket!
-The average glass bottle contains over 25% recycled glass but green bottles
can contain as much as 90% recycled glass!
- Lincoln Cathedral has an internal volume of 150,000 m3, we generate enough
household rubbish in Lincolnshire each year to fill this space 15 times
over.
- 13 billion steel cans are produced each year in the UK alone. If you put them
together end-to-end they'd stretch to the moon three times!
- Every year, an estimated 17½ billion plastic bags are given away by
supermarkets. This is equivalent to over 290 bags for every person in the UK.
17½ billion seconds ago it was the year 1449. We produce and use 20 times more
plastic today than we did 50 years ago!
- The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle will power a computer for 25
minutes!
- The energy saved from recycling just one plastic bottle would power a 60 watt
light bulb for 60 hours!
- It is estimated that for every tonne of paper recycled approximately 4,200
KWhof electricity are saved - that's enough to power a house in the UK for a
whole year!
- The energy saving from recycling a single bottle will power a 100 watt light
bulb for almost an hour or a colour TV for 20 minutes.
- The Titanic weighed 46,000 tonnes. We produce the equivalent 8 Titanic's
of household rubbish!
- Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over
again.
- For every tonne of paper used for recycling 17 trees are spared.
-The average family in Lincolnshire uses 6 trees worth of paper each
year.
-A forest the size of Wales is needed to supply the paper consumed in the UK
every year!
-Using a tonne of recycled glass instead of raw materials cuts emissions of
CO2 by 266 kg
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.
-Cigarette butts and filters take 12 years to biodegrade. An aluminum can takes between 200 to 500 years to biodegrade. Plastic diapers and sanitary pads take between 500-800 years. Styrofoam takes more than 5,000 years. And it would take a glass bottle 1 million years to biodegrade.
light bulb for almost an hour.
-The largest glass furnaces produce more than 400 tonnes - more than 1 million
bottles each day!
-One recycled aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for
three hours!
-On average each household uses 15 bottles everyday - that's about 275,000
bottles every year!
- Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to light a 100 watt
light bulb for 20 hours!
-By recycling your daily newspaper you will have saved more than your own body
weight in paper within a year!
- If everyone recycled all their aluminum cans there would be 14 million fewer
dustbins to be land filled every year!
-It takes just 25 pop bottles to make one fleece jacket!
-The average glass bottle contains over 25% recycled glass but green bottles
can contain as much as 90% recycled glass!
- Lincoln Cathedral has an internal volume of 150,000 m3, we generate enough
household rubbish in Lincolnshire each year to fill this space 15 times
over.
- 13 billion steel cans are produced each year in the UK alone. If you put them
together end-to-end they'd stretch to the moon three times!
- Every year, an estimated 17½ billion plastic bags are given away by
supermarkets. This is equivalent to over 290 bags for every person in the UK.
17½ billion seconds ago it was the year 1449. We produce and use 20 times more
plastic today than we did 50 years ago!
- The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle will power a computer for 25
minutes!
- The energy saved from recycling just one plastic bottle would power a 60 watt
light bulb for 60 hours!
- It is estimated that for every tonne of paper recycled approximately 4,200
KWhof electricity are saved - that's enough to power a house in the UK for a
whole year!
- The energy saving from recycling a single bottle will power a 100 watt light
bulb for almost an hour or a colour TV for 20 minutes.
- The Titanic weighed 46,000 tonnes. We produce the equivalent 8 Titanic's
of household rubbish!
- Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over
again.
- For every tonne of paper used for recycling 17 trees are spared.
-The average family in Lincolnshire uses 6 trees worth of paper each
year.
-A forest the size of Wales is needed to supply the paper consumed in the UK
every year!
-Using a tonne of recycled glass instead of raw materials cuts emissions of
CO2 by 266 kg
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.
-Cigarette butts and filters take 12 years to biodegrade. An aluminum can takes between 200 to 500 years to biodegrade. Plastic diapers and sanitary pads take between 500-800 years. Styrofoam takes more than 5,000 years. And it would take a glass bottle 1 million years to biodegrade.