Statistics

• We recently had just over two tonnes of waste paper taken away for recycling.



• We have reduced our fuel costs by 18% over the last year.



• There is now one mobile phone for every five people on the planet. Worldwide - and in 20 African countries - they now outnumber landlines.



• The UK government predicts an increase in air passenger numbers from 180m each year in 2000, to 500m in 2030. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) says the expansion of aviation will mean that, by 2030, there will be 606,300 people subject to unacceptable levels of noise - more than double the number of people affected today.



• Since 1950, the number of people living in cities has tripled to two billion - more than 41% of the global population.



• The average person in the UK consumed 18 tonnes of materials last year.



• The average office worker generates more than half a kilogram of waste paper every day.



• It takes 20 times more energy to make cans from raw materials than to make them from recycled material.