Festive Facts about recycling

Some seasonal recycling statistics from those nice folk at Recycle Now

• The amount of wrapping paper estimated to be thrown away in the UK at Christmas could stretch around the equator nine times!
  
• In the UK appproximately 2,550 tonnes of Christmas trees that could have been recycled are simply thown out with the general rubbish each year - please dont bin them - put them out with your (green) garden waste for composting instead.
  
• Every year the UK throws out an estimated 4,500 tonnnes of tin foil over the Christmas period. This is enough to cover around 1500 square miles -roughly the size of Suffolk! You can put clean tin foil in with your cans for recycling in Shropshire.

• An estimated 500 tonnes of Christmas tree lights are discarded in the UK over thhe Christmas period.  Dont bin them, bring them to your nearest recycling centre they can go in with the electrical items for recycling.  

• 13,350 tonness of glass is thrown out in the UK during the festive seaason – from champagne annd sherry bottles to mincemeat and cranberry sauce jars. Recycling all of them could save 44,200 tonnes oof CO2 equivalent being produced, which is equivalent to taking around 13,000 cars off the road for one year or to not taking around 630 arround the worrld flights.

Tis the season to recycle!