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What is Your Plastiki?What is Your Plastiki?

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PLASTICBOTTLES

GLASS

CANSPAPER

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WHAT ITEMS DO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY RECYCLE? HOW COULD YOU TRY AND RECYCLE MORE?WHAT PLASTIC ITEMS DO YOU OFTEN THROW AWAY? COULD YOU RE-USE ANY OF THESE AND HOW?

IT TAKES 24

TREES TO MAKE

1 TON OF

NEWSPAPER.

1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours

Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could

be recycled

1 recycled

glass bottle would

save enough energy

to power a computer

for 25 minutes.

IF ALL CANS IN THE UK WERE RECYCLED,

WE WOULD NEED 14 MILLION FEWER

DUSTBINS

£36,000,000 WORTH OF ALUMINIUM

IS THROWN AWAY EACH YEAR

GLASS IS 100% RECYCLABLE AND CAN BE USED AGAIN AND AGAIN

Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills

will never decompose

1 recycled tin can could save enough energy to power a TV

for 3 hours

IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ONLY 7% OF PLASTIC WASTE IS CURRENTLY BEING RECYCLED

COLOUR ME IN AND START THINKING ABOUT ALL THE ENERGY YOU COULD SAVE BY RECYCLING YOUR TRASH: THEN SHARE YOUR NEW FOUND KNOWLEDGE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND INSPIRE THEM TO BEAT WASTE TOO!

25% OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE IS PACKAGING

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Plastic Fact-astic

TOXIC CHEMICALS CAN

LEACH OUT OF POLYSTYRENE

PACKAGING AND INTO THE FOOD

THAT THEY CONTAIN (ESPECIALLY

WHEN HEATED IN A MICROWAVE)

!

An estimated 56% of all

plastics waste is used packaging,

three-quarters of which is from

households.

COLOUR ME IN AND START THINKING ABOUT ALL THE ENERGY YOU COULD SAVE BY RECYCLING YOUR TRASH! THEN SHARE YOUR NEW FOUND KNOWLEDGE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND INSPIRE THEM TO BEAT WASTE TOO!

THE AVERAGE PLASTIC BAG TAKES 1 SECOND

TO MANUFACTURE, IS 20 MINUTES IN USE AND

TAKES 100- 400 YEARS TO DEGRADE NATURALLY

An estimated 13 billion plastic

bottles are disposed of each year.

4% of the oil we extract is turned

into plasticPOLYSTYRENE IS A VERY HAZARDOUS

FORM OF PLASTIC AND WHEN IT IS MADE

IT POLLUTES THE AIR AND CREATES

LARGE AMOUNTS OF LIQUID AND

SOLID WASTE

�FOR EVERY LITRE OF WATER POURED INTO A

BOTTLE ANOTHER 2 LITRES ARE USED IN

ITS MANUFACTURE.

25 recycled PET bottles can be used to make an

adult’s fleece jacket

Each year, Americans

throw away around

100 billion plastic bags.

Only 0.6 percent of these are recycled

COLOUR ME IN AND GET LEARNING SOME COOL FACTS ABOUT PLASTIC: THEN PIN IT ON YOUR WALL OR FRIDGE AND IMPRESS YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WITH YOUR NEW FACTASTIC KNOWLEDGE!

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