Top Christmas Recycling Facts and Stats

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• Recycled 'real' Christmas trees are usually shredded into chippings which are then used locally in parks or woodland.
• The packaging paper we consume every year is the same in weight to 124 London Eye's.
• If every household that cooks a turkey over Christmas puts the turkey foil in the recycling bin, this would save enough energy for every household in the UK to watch over one days’ worth of Christmas TV.
• Glass drinks bottles and jars can all be recycled again and again, will always be as good as new and could turn up for you to use next Christmas!
• Recycle 6 mince pie foil cases and save enough energy to watch the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
• The UK throws away over 13,000 wheelie bins of mince pies a year which if recycled could save the same energy as powering 356 households with electricity for 365 days.
• The average household generates 3.2kg of food waste each week. This is the equivalent of 18 million Christmas turkeys in the UK.
• In the UK food that could have been eaten but gets thrown away (4.7 million tonnes) is worth around £17 billion. This is around £80 per month for the average family with children.