Good Home Tips

A few home truths! -

• 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.