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Key facts

Do you really need it?
Ask yourself this question next time you go shopping. Can you reuse or repair what you’ve got, can you buy recycled?  Buying recycled products will help stimulate markets for materials collected from your local recycling banks. Choosing to buy recycled will mean less rubbish goes to the tip.

"Every plastic bag buried in landfill takes 500 years to decay. And we use 500 million of these each week!"

Don’t throw it away…..

…..The items you recycle are valuable resources and can be made into something useful!!
Did you know that your plastic pop bottles can be recycled to make a fleece jacket like this one? 

 

 

It takes approximately 25 recycled bottles to make one fleece jacket.

Junk mail facts

- registered to reduce junk mail in 2006;

 

 

• For each tonne of junk mail produced 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water and 390 gallons of oil are used;
• By acting now and removing yourself from their database you can help reduce the amount of unwanted.

Real nappy facts

• Your baby will have approximately 2,000 nappy changes a year;
• Your baby will use about 5,000 disposable nappies until potty trained!;
• You could save £500 by using reusable nappies on your baby.