Our Environment
The Facts
Moray Waste• Landfill tax - £64 per tonne, rising
by £8 each year…
• Audit of one ‘waste’ skip @ Chanonry discovered 30% of material could have been recycled
• Estimated £1300 wasted every week – enough to fund three extra home carers…
Recycling• Recycling aluminium is 20 times
more efficient than making it from the raw material, bauxite (Alupro).
• Over 9000kg of CO² equivalents are saved by recycling 1000kg of aluminium cans compared to sending them to landfill.
• Source: zerowastescotland.gov.uk
British Glass• Every UK household uses on
average 331 bottles and jars per year
• Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power your computer for 25 minutes
• Glass can be recycled again and again, without any loss in quality
• Glass thrown away will NEVER decompose
Recycling
Paper• On average, the production of 100%
recycled paper saves 1.32 tonnes of CO² equivalent
• Takes just seven days for old magazines and newspapers to be recycled into new ones
• WRAP website – Working Together for a World without Waste
Recycling Paper
Facts!• 1 recycled tin saves enough energy to
power a television for 3 hours• 1 recycled glass bottle saves enough energy
to power a PC for 25 minutes• 1 recycled plastic bottle saves enough
energy for a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours• 70% less energy is required to recycle paper
than production from raw materials
• unreleased energy in an average dustbin each year could power 5,000 hours of TV!
• Up to 60% of the rubbish in the average dustbin could be recycled.
• Britain’s largest lake (Lomond) could be filled with UK rubbish in 8 months.
• On average, 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ends up as rubbish.
• As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.
• Up to 80% of a car can be recycled.
Loch Lomond
Plastics• 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used
each year in the UK, that’s about 15 million bottles per day.
• Most families throw away about 40kg of recyclable plastic per year
• Use of plastic in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year
• Plastic takes up to 500 years to decompose
topographical shade canopy for a vehicle created by Garth Britzman with recycled bottles filled with coloured water…
Forestry Commission• £650 million industry with 10,500 jobs
in mills, transport & management
Go Green!