Facts and figures
- Recycling 1 glass bottle or jar saves enough energy to power your T.V. for 1 ½ hours.
- The newspaper you read today could have been recycled by you just 2 days ago.
- For every tonne of recycled material collected, our recycling contractor Abitibi make a £1 donation to Save the Children and the Echo's Sunrise charity.
- It takes roughly 17 trees to make 1 tonne of paper.
- The average UK family throw away 300 glass bottles/jars a year.