Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting
to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year
[source: Waste
Watch]
Every year, the average dustbin contains enough
unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television.
[source: www.assurre.org]
On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish
every 7 weeks [source: Waste
Watch]
Every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill
Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England)
[source: Waste
Watch]
In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill
the Albert Hall [source: Waste
Watch]
The cost of managing the municipal waste produced in England
is around £1.6 billion per year [Source: Waste not, Want not: Cabinet
Office, 2002]
