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)

Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, landfilling the same amount creates 6 jobs while recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.

Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

English households recycled more than a fifth of their waste (approaching 23%) - one of the lowest rates in Europe (source: www.defra.org.uk)

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s.

It takes 24 trees to make 1 tonne of paper.

Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

7 million trees are chopped down each year to produce nappies for the UK market. It is estimated that it could take longer than 200 years for disposable nappies to rot down in landfill sites.