6. The average useful life of a plastic carrier bag is 12 minutes yet they take 500-1000 years to break down in a landfill site. 7 billions disposed plastic bags every year in UK only
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8. The UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of waste every year. This rate of rubbish generation would fill the Albert Hall in London in less than 2 hours.
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10. Fresh Kills Municipal Landfill, Staten Island Picture of Fresh Kills taken c.1990, operated 1948-2001
11. Landfill Operations Daily Production & Compaction Gas Treatment Gas Flaring Leachate Treatment Daily Cover Gas/Condensate Monitoring & Collection
12. Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) or solid recovered fuel/ specified recovered fuel (SRF) is a fuel produced by shredding and dehydrating municipal solid waste (MSW) in a converter or steam pressure treating in an autoclave.
20. What can be recycled: Some Plastics… Many recyclers do not take plastic bags, styrofoam, and certain other plastics. Find out if your recycler accepts it before you toss it in the bin
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22. More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone, the equivalent weight of 18 blue whales.
29. Of the 100 million tons of plastic produced annually, 10% ends up in the ocean More than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris Sewage include physical, chemical, and biological contaminants. Water pollution accounts for the deaths of more than 14,000 people daily.
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31. Chain Effect Floating garbage is consumed by jelly fish and other organisms, which in turn is consumed by the fish that we eat.