FUN FACTS

Did you know?

Recycling just 1 plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours.

In developed countries like the UK, 8000 tonnes of waste are thrown away by families every day. This is the same weight as 1600 African elephants.

In the UK we make enough waste to fill the Albert Hall in London every 2 hours.

About 7.5 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest are cut down every year.

The average UK household spends £480.00 a year on food that just gets thrown away.

If we stopped wasting food that could have been eaten, we could have a huge impact on the environment, the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off UK roads.