Friday 18 May 2012 | 15:21

Recycling facts

Did you know?

Each year we use enough christmas wrapping paper to stretch around the equator nine times or to the moon.
1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.
Each day, we produce enough rubbish to fill Trafalgar Square to the height of Nelson's Column.
Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees.
The plastic that is contained within the casing of a printer cartridges can take up to 1000 years to decompose. The best way to prevent this is to recycle cartridges so that they are reused.
Once an aluminium can is recycled it can be part of new can within six weeks.
As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.