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The volume of waste produced in the UK in one day is enough
to fill Trafalgar Square to the top of Nelson's Column
- 80% of Britain’s populations live within 2km
of a landfill site
- Leachate is a liquid that seeps from landfill sites.
It contains pesticides, solvents & heavy metals &
is harmful to health and the environment
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The average British household receives 13 items of Direct
Mail every four weeks
- 32% of it is never even opened
- 1 million tonnes of junk mail and magazines are binned
every year
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- Every year in the UK, we generate 2.5 million fully
grown African elephants worth of packaging!
- 150
million plastic carrier bags are used in Britain every
week.
If you laid them together, they would almost reach twice
around the equator!
- Plastic bags can take up to 500 years to decay in landfill
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In
the UK’s post-Christmas rubbish bin, you’ll find:
- 80,000 tonnes of clothes and textiles
- 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging
- 4,200 tonnes of aluminium foil
- 83 sq km of wrapping paper
- 1 billion christmas cards
- 6 million christmas trees
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For
more information about London's waste, got to www.capitalwastefacts.com
For nationwide waste information visit www.wastewatch.org.uk
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