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Our mission is to try and change the throwaway culture we live in, even if its just a little bit. So much waste is going to landfill that could be reclaimed, recycled and resold.

The following stats drive us on to achieve our mission.:

Over the last 3 years our recycling rate has risen from 11.8% to 26.7%. Although this is a great start there is still a great deal more we can all do to help reduce, re-use and recycle our waste.

On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.

Every UK household produces over one tonne of rubbish every year.

Every eight months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere.

It is estimated that there are 90 million redundant mobile phones in the UK. 

Over Christmas as much as 83km² of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey.

Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a colour TV for 15 minutes.

It is not known how long glass takes to break down, but it’s so long that glass made in the Middle East over 3000 years ago can still be found today.

Each tonne of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 KW of energy and 7000 gallons of water.

Incinerating 10,000 tonnes of waste creates one job, land-filling the same amount of waste creates six jobs but recycling this much waste creates 36 jobs.

The energy saved by recycling one plastic bottle will power a 60W light bulb for six hours.

Once an aluminium can is recycled it can be part of new can within six weeks.

If all the aluminium cans sold in the UK were recycled, there would be 14 million fewer full dustbins each year.

Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.

It takes just 25 two litre drink bottles to make one adult size fleece.

70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials.