Bristol Textile Recyclers - Textile Recycling & Clothing Exporters

Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year. (Waste Watch)

Every year, the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television. (www.assurre.org)

On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks.
(Waste Watch)

On average 70% of the contents of your dustbin could be recycled or composted. (recyclingrangers.co.uk)

Present clothes banks are only operating at about 25% capacity. (www.e4s.org.uk)

If we filled a queue of double decker buses with our waste paper, it would stretch from London to Milan. (recyclezone.org.uk)

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Roughly, it takes 17 trees to make one tonne of paper. (recyclezone.org.uk)

If you collected up all of the empty aluminum drinks cans in the U.K. and took them for recycling, you could make 30 million pounds! (recyclezone.org.uk)

If everyone in the UK bought one reclaimed woollen garment each year, it would save an average of 371 million gallons
of water (the average UK reservoir holds about 300 million gallons) and 480 tonnes of chemical dyestuffs. (Evergreen)