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Each week the average family in a developed country gets through 4 glass bottles or jars, 13 cans, 3 plastic bottles and 5 kilograms of paper.
Each UK household produces about 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting to about 27 million tonnes for the UK each year.
Every year over 10 billion steel cans are produced and up to a quarter of every new can is made up of recycled steel.
In Europe 55% of all steel made comes from recycled steel.
Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over again into products like bicycles and of course new cans!
Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water!
English households recycled more than a fifth of their waste (approaching 23%) - one of the lowest rates in Europe (source: www.defra.org.uk)
