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Did You Know?

You can also recycle your foil and aerosols in your mixed recycling.
You can recycle more by recycling items from upstairs and downstairs, including shampoo and shower gel bottles from your bathroom and aerosols from your bedroom.
You can only put bottle shaped plastic into your mixed recycling.

Over 2.5 billion steel cans are recycled in the UK each year.
When making new glass, for every tonne of waste glass that’s recycled 315 kilogrammes of carbon dioxide is saved from being released into the atmosphere
More than 75% of all the aluminium ever produced is still in use and one tonne of recycled aluminium saves nine tonnes of greenhouse gases!
We use 15 million plastic bottles every day.
By recycling just one plastic bottle we can save the same amount of energy needed to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours!