enviro facts & figures - why bother?

Our Environment

The Facts

Moray Waste• Landfill tax - £64 per tonne, rising

by £8 each year…

• Audit of one ‘waste’ skip @ Chanonry discovered 30% of material could have been recycled

• Estimated £1300 wasted every week – enough to fund three extra home carers…

Recycling• Recycling aluminium is 20 times

more efficient than making it from the raw material, bauxite (Alupro).

• Over 9000kg of CO² equivalents are saved by recycling 1000kg of aluminium cans compared to sending them to landfill.

• Source: zerowastescotland.gov.uk

British Glass• Every UK household uses on

average 331 bottles and jars per year

• Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power your computer for 25 minutes

• Glass can be recycled again and again, without any loss in quality

• Glass thrown away will NEVER decompose

Recycling

Paper• On average, the production of 100%

recycled paper saves 1.32 tonnes of CO² equivalent

• Takes just seven days for old magazines and newspapers to be recycled into new ones

• WRAP website – Working Together for a World without Waste

Recycling Paper

Facts!• 1 recycled tin saves enough energy to

power a television for 3 hours• 1 recycled glass bottle saves enough energy

to power a PC for 25 minutes• 1 recycled plastic bottle saves enough

energy for a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours• 70% less energy is required to recycle paper

than production from raw materials

• unreleased energy in an average dustbin each year could power 5,000 hours of TV!

• Up to 60% of the rubbish in the average dustbin could be recycled.

• Britain’s largest lake (Lomond) could be filled with UK rubbish in 8 months.

• On average, 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ends up as rubbish.

• As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.

• Up to 80% of a car can be recycled.

Loch Lomond

Plastics• 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used

each year in the UK, that’s about 15 million bottles per day.

• Most families throw away about 40kg of recyclable plastic per year

• Use of plastic in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year

• Plastic takes up to 500 years to decompose

topographical shade canopy for a vehicle created by Garth Britzman with recycled bottles filled with coloured water…

Forestry Commission• £650 million industry with 10,500 jobs

in mills, transport & management

Go Green!