Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year [source: Waste Watch]
Every year, the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television. [source: www.assurre.org]
On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks [source: Waste Watch]
Every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England) [source: Waste Watch]
In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall
[source: Waste Watch]
The cost of managing the municipal waste produced in England is around £1.6 million per year [Source: Waste not, Want not; Cabinet Office, 2002]
