Did you know..?
Did you know…?
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1/3 of all landfill waste is made up of everyday consumer product packaging.
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Bottles and plastic lunch bags or shopping bags account for approximately 7% of our trash, but they also occupy a lot space: almost 30% of all the space occupied by solid waste.
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The amount of landfill waste has tripled over the last twenty years. The area this waste occupies has doubled.
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Each year, every person throws away about 56 glass containers which could be fully recycled.
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Glass packaging is 100% recyclable.
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Each recycled glass bottle can save enough energy to light a 100-Watt light bulb for 4 hours.
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On average, 17 trees must be cut down to produce one tonne of paper.
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On average, two medium-sized trees must be cut down to produce 100 kg of paper.
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In a year, one tree produces enough oxygen for 10 people.
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Stacked one upon another, the PET bottles discarded worldwide during one year would make a tower that would be 28 million kilometers high – 73 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon!