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On average a UK family throws away 860 metal cans in a year. Aluminium cans are melted down in furnaces. They are recycled to create another can with new fizz inside and back on the supermarket shelf in about 6 weeks! Recycling aluminium cans saves 95% of the energy used to create a new can.
Interesting facts about
recycling aluminium cans
Interesting facts about
recycling steel cans
Steel is very easy to recycle as it is magnetic and simple for the recycling machines to collect. Steel cans are melted down in furnaces and are recycled back into another can. They are back on the supermarket shelf in about 6 weeks with new food inside! Steel can be recycled again and again and it does not reduce in quality.
Interesting facts about
recycling paper
On average a UK family throws away the equivalent of 6 trees worth of paper in one year. Paper is recycled into more newspaper, toilet rolls, tissues & egg boxes. Paper can be recycled 5 or 6 times before the fibres become to weak to be recycled. It's last life will be as a tissue.
Interesting facts about
recycling glass
MK residents recycle glass bottles and jars in blue boxes. The glass is sent to furnaces in Sheffield where it is melted down and remoulded into new bottles and jars. When different colour glass bottles and jars are melted together it all turns green as this is the dominant colour. Glass does not biodegrade – it will last forever!
Interesting facts about
recycling plastic bottles
On average a UK family throws away 480 plastic bottles in a year. To recycle a plastic bottle it is first squashed, chipped or flaked, then washed, dried and melted. Plastic bottles can be recycled into more bottles, traffic cones, wheelie bins, guttering, fluff in duvets, etc.
Interesting facts about
recycling plastic tubs
Plastic is made from crude oil and it does not rot away easily. Plastic strawberry punnets, yoghurt pots, etc. are processed into a plastic board to be turned into products such as picnic tables or pig sty's! Recycling plastic packaging can save up to 90% of the energy used to make a new plastic bottle or tub.