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Aluminium

Plastic

Paper

Glass

Aluminium is produced annually ,51,000 tonnes of which ends up as packaging in the US

275,000 tonnes of plasc are used each year in the UK, that’s about 15 Million boles per day.

Most families throw away about 40 kg of plasc per year, which could otherwise be recycled.

The use of plasc in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year.

Each US family uses an average of 500 glass boles and jars annually

Recycled paper produces 73% less air polluon than if it was made from raw materials.

12.5 Million tonnes of paper and cardboard are used annually in the US

The average person in the UK gets through 38 kg of newspapers per year

It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper

Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again

Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose

The largest glass furnace produces over 1 Million glass boles and jars per day

If all cans in the US were recycled, we would need 14 million fewer dustbins

Aluminium cans can be recycled and ready to use in just 6 weeks

24 Million Tonnes

Plastic bottle recycling increased by more than 6% last year even as the amount of resin used to make those bottles remained essentially steady compared

to the previous year.

Recycling is a process to change waste materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials. It not only reduces pollution, but also

keeps the environment fresh.

Why You Can't Ignore Plastics Recycling

SOME INTERESTING FACTS

RECYCLING HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

PLASTIC RECYCLING FACTS AND FIGURES

Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could be recycled

The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours.

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

Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.

2.5 MILLION

$25 MILLION

2.4MILLION

$4000

102.1BILLION Plasc boles are used in every hour

Pasc bags are used In every year

Tons of PET plasc discarded in USA

It costs approximately $4000 to recycle one ton of plasc bags

Spent in the state of California to disposeplasc wastes into

landfills.