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Every year Stockton Council collects over 87,000 tonnes of household rubbish.

Do you wonder what happens once we've collected it? 

• 11,712 tonnes is taken to landfill.
• 53,734 tonnes is converted to electricity at the Energy from Waste site at Haverton Hill.
• 23,247 tonnes (over 26%) is recycled.
   

We aim to increase our recycling rates to 40% by 2010.

Did you know that:

• 1 recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
• 1 recycled glass bottle would save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
• 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.

Aluminium

• If all cans in the UK were recycled, we would need 14 million fewer dustbins.
• £36,000,000 worth of aluminium is thrown away each year.
• Aluminium cans can be recycled and ready to use in just 6 weeks.

 Glass

• Each UK family uses an average of 500 glass bottles and jars annually.
  The largest glass furnace produces over 1 million glass bottles and jars per day.
• Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.
  Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose.
   

Paper

• Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.
• 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials.
• 12.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard are used annually in the UK.
• The average person in the UK gets through 38kg of newspapers per year.
• Every ton of newspaper recycled saves enough energy to power a TV for 31 hours.
• It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.
   

Plastic

• 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used each year in the UK, that's about 15 million bottles per day.
• Most families throw away about 40kg of plastic per year, which could otherwise be recycled.
• The use of plastic in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year.
• Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose.
• It takes just 25 two litre drink bottles to make one adult size fleece.
• One tonne = 20,000 plastic bottles.
   

Cardboard

• Recycling cardboard produces fewer emissions to air and water, than production of cardboard from virgin materials.
• Every tonne of cardboard recycled saves:
  17 trees, 7000 gallons of water, 2 cubic yards of landfill and,
  4,100 kw/hours of electricity.

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