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recycling specifics
For those of you that would like to delve a little deeper into the world of recycling, this section is ideal! There is more detailed information on the recycling of different materials and an interactive discussion forum where you can discuss topics of interest with other recycle-more users!
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facts and figures
Did you know?
- each household uses approximately 600 steel cans per year
- steel cans are becoming lighter with the average weight of a soft drinks can in 2004 expected to be only 21.4g. In 1980 it was 31.2g
- there are over 2.5 billion cans recycled in the UK each year, that's a saving of 125,000 tonnes of solid waste every year
- stretched end to end, these recycled cans would stretch three quarters of the way round the Earth
- the thinnest part of the can wall measures only 0.07 mm thick. That's thinner than a human hair
- it would take 1087 steel drinks cans stacked end to end to reach the top of the London Eye or 2818 to reach the top of the Eiffel Tower
- the value of used steel cans in the waste stream is £22 million per annum which is available to collectors
- don't forget that 2 billion drinks cans are made of steel
- all steel cans can be recycled
- millions of steel cans are collected every day by using huge magnets to pull them out of dustbin waste
- all steel cans contain around 25% recycled steel
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