One third of the water used in most homes is flushed down the toilet.
The energy it takes to make one aluminium can from raw materials could be used to make 20 recycled cans.
If an aluminium can is thrown away it will still be a can in 500 years time.
Britain throws away 27 million tonnes of rubbish each year. That weighs the same as 3 ½ million double decker buses and would stretch 1 ½ times around the world.
80% of a car can be recycled.
If all our newspaper were recycled, about 250,000,000 trees a year would be saved.
Yuck, the number of disposable nappies thrown into British bins for each baby weighs the same as a family car.
Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres a minute.
It would take a forest the size of Wales to grow enough trees to provide the amount of paper that Britain uses each year.
Every year the UK population will fill approximately 300 million square metres of land fill.