What a load of old rot!
how long will it take to decompose? |
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Styrofoam container Plastic jug Aluminium can Disposable nappy Tin can Leather shoe Wool sock Paper bag Banana peel |
1 million years 1 million years 200-500 years 550 years 90 years 45 years 1 year 1 month 14 weeks |
A lack of bins is not a major factor in littering - most littering occurs within 5 metres of a bin. Bin use is most common between 11am and 2pm. Littering is most common about 4pm.
Approximately £332 million a year is spent each year in Britain on cleaning up litter dropped on streets.
The average fine for dropping litter is around £115 - although a court can fine someone up to £2,500.
The police prosecuted nearly 1000 people last year for dropping litter.
Each year we generate an incredible 435 million tonnes of waste. Of this, household waste makes up 20 million tonnes - that's about 1 tonne per household.
The Government set a target for 25% of all household waste to be recycled by the year 2000. Are we on target?
Just think 450 years after you are dead your nappies will still be rotting in the ground. POOHie!
The amount of rubbish in the UK is expected to double in the next 20 years.
It will take over 1 million years for glass bottles to break down but every day 14 million glass bottles and jars are put into holes in the ground - landfill sites.
Every year over 2 million seabirds die as a result of eating or getting tangled up in rubbish, particularly plastic.
The volume of waste produced in the UK in one hour would fill the Albert Hall.
In one year there would be enough waste to fill dustbins stretching from the Earth to the Moon.
Every year in the UK we use 13 billion steel cans which, when placed end to end would stretch to the moon - three times! phew!!
On average people in the UK generate 10 times their own body weight in household waste every year.
£125,000.00 spent on removing rubbish from the Rochdale Canal in one year.