Some Facts and Figures
Sometimes facts and figures can be the shock tactic needed to encourage recycling. In time taxes will do this for you. When you think about recycling office waste - what materials do you think of? - there's more to recycling than just paper....
In the UK, we produce 434 million tonnes of solid waste every year. As a nation, we only recycle 17.7% of it - one of the worst rates in Europe.
London Businesses currently produce approximately 100,000 tonnes of waste per annum.
The UK produces 3 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. Approximately 85% is landfilled, 8% incinerated and 7% recycled.
Industry Commerce and household waste is collectively growing by 3% per annum.
Food waste accounts for 21% of total waste and is the largest single proportion of all waste.
Collectively, paper and card are the next most commonly collected material for recycling, accounting for 28% of all recycling.
In the UK today, nearly 5 million tonnes of paper is dumped in landfill or incinerated every year.
Recycling just one tonne of paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.
We throw away 12 billion aluminium cans in the UK every year.
It takes as much energy to make one new aluminium can from raw materials as it does to make twenty from recycled aluminium.
Despite the growth of recycling bottle banks, we still throw away five of every six bottles sold in the UK. This means over 6 billion bottles are going to landfill every year.
The energy saved by recycling just one bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.
If you recycle just one glass bottle you will save enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours.
The more investment that goes into ways of tackling waste the better. London Recycling Limited will be opening its new Material Recycling Facility in the summer which will provide another environmentallly sound route for your office waste - be it plastic bottles, paper, glass and so on. These materials will be sorted into a quality baled material and recycled.
Recycling what we can is a must if we are to reduce landfill - a problem that cannot be buried. Some materials will still have to be incinerated also. Reducing the amount of waste we produce should always be concidered in hand with green purchasing and energy saving techniques which will save your business money and reduce emissions. Remember, landfill taxes are rising by 32% a year so it makes sense on all fronts to get recycling sooner rather than later.
London Businesses currently produce approximately 100,000 tonnes of waste per annum.
The UK produces 3 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. Approximately 85% is landfilled, 8% incinerated and 7% recycled.
Industry Commerce and household waste is collectively growing by 3% per annum.
Food waste accounts for 21% of total waste and is the largest single proportion of all waste.
Collectively, paper and card are the next most commonly collected material for recycling, accounting for 28% of all recycling.
In the UK today, nearly 5 million tonnes of paper is dumped in landfill or incinerated every year.
Recycling just one tonne of paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.
We throw away 12 billion aluminium cans in the UK every year.
It takes as much energy to make one new aluminium can from raw materials as it does to make twenty from recycled aluminium.
Despite the growth of recycling bottle banks, we still throw away five of every six bottles sold in the UK. This means over 6 billion bottles are going to landfill every year.
The energy saved by recycling just one bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.
If you recycle just one glass bottle you will save enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours.
The more investment that goes into ways of tackling waste the better. London Recycling Limited will be opening its new Material Recycling Facility in the summer which will provide another environmentallly sound route for your office waste - be it plastic bottles, paper, glass and so on. These materials will be sorted into a quality baled material and recycled.
Recycling what we can is a must if we are to reduce landfill - a problem that cannot be buried. Some materials will still have to be incinerated also. Reducing the amount of waste we produce should always be concidered in hand with green purchasing and energy saving techniques which will save your business money and reduce emissions. Remember, landfill taxes are rising by 32% a year so it makes sense on all fronts to get recycling sooner rather than later.
