Amazing facts and helpful hints on Recycling

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Around 30 million vehicles are on the road in the UK, with 40 million tyres being scrapped in the UK each year.
Thousands of people in developing countries need all types of clothing. Ask yourself, if someone needs top clothing, wouldn't they need something to wear underneath.
Roughly eight million disposable nappies are thrown away every day.
The average person gets through 38kg of newspapers each year? Every tonne of paper that's recycled can save enough energy to power a three bedroom house for a whole year!
The energy saved by recycling one aluminium can will power a television for three hours.
Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves enough energy to power your television for one and a half hours.
150 million plastic carrier bags are used every week. And they take 100s of years to degrade.
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Old tyres can be recycled to become sports and play surfaces, paving slabs and internal floor tiles, or carpet underlay and soles of shoes.
You can dispose of two tyres a year for free at the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Consider using cloth nappies to reduce nappy waste to landfill.
Don't bin useful clothing. Clothing banks will also take adults' and childrens' underpants and bras, socks, girdles, pyjamas, nightdresses, slips and vests
Recycling paper makes sense because it's so useful and can be made into many new products such as loft insulation, paints and even airport runways and Formula One racetracks!
You can raise money for your favourite cause by collecting aluminium cans and taking them to a 'cash for cans' programme.
Most supermarkets often have bottle banks. Why not take your glass with you when you do your shopping?
Buy items in glass and can packaging whenever possible, they are easier to recycle.
Always reuse your plastic carrier bags or, better still, opt for a 'bag for life'. Most supermarkets offer a 'bag for life' scheme.