Recycling
Glass
Recycling one glass bottle produces enough energy to
- Have your computer running for 25 minutes!
- Watch television for 20 minutes
- Power a washing machine for 10 minutes
Plastic
Recycling one plastic bottle produces enough energy to
- Light your 60W bulb for 3 hours
- It takes 25 recycled soft drinks bottles to make a fleece jacket
- Approximately 88% of the energy is saved when plastic is made from plastic rather than raw material of gas and oil
Cardboard
- It takes 24 trees to make 1 tonne of newspaper
- Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials
- Over 12 million tonnes of paper and cardboard are used annually in the UK
Metal
- Recycling metal material uses 95% less energy than manufacturing it from new material
- Reduces greenhouse emissions
- Decreases environmental damage caused by mining
Wood
- It is estimated that we waste 4.5 million tonnes of waste wood a year
- By saving forests we are helping prevent soil erosion
- Forests absorb huge amounts of Carbon Dioxide
Food
- We use Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to convert food into biogas and liquid fertilizer
- If everyone in the UK stopped throwing away food we would cut climate change emissions by the equivalent of taking 1 in 5 cars off the road!
Textiles
- We pass on any clothing still in a wearable condition to the people who need it most
- Textiles that are not in a wearable condition are recycled to make industrial wiping cloths
- Every kilo of textiles that is recycled saves the equivalent of 3 kgs of CO2
