Did You Know?
Don Stewart, Planning Group

• By putting an aluminium drink can in the wheelie-bin as rubbish you are throwing away the energy equivalent to a gallon of petrol.
• Four out of every five drinks cans world-wide are entirely made of aluminium.
• Aluminium Recycling Plants only cost about 10% of the price of a primary ore smelter and yields metal with only 5% of the energy input - a 95% energy saving!
• Aluminium fetches a much higher scrap price than steel.
• Do not cook acidic foods in aluminium pans.
• Foil represents nearly 40% of the UK usage of aluminium in packaging.
  
  
• Aerosol cans are impossible to recycle and a wasteful form of packaging.
• Buy hair preparations in a pump action plastic spray, deodorants as a roll-on or stick, and household polishes and waxes in tins.
  
  
• Waste lubricating oil from vehicles is recyclable.
• "Oil never wears out, it just gets dirty".
• Never dump oil down the drain ... If it reaches a sewage treatment plant the bacteria needed for effective treatment is killed.
  
  
• One-third of all domestic rubbish is packaging.
• The per capita consumption of paper in the UK exceeds 163 kg per year.
• UK imports two-thirds of its paper needs.

November 2006