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Text Your Waste Away

Text your waste away Valpak's recycling website, has launched a new text service!

Text 'waste' or 'elec' and your postcode to 60060 from anywhere in the UK.

You will receive a text back with details of where you can recycle anything from plastics to electrical items.

Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees
Disposable nappies take 500 years to decompose
Each year in the UK households throw away almost 30 million tonnes of waste, that's the same 4.3 million African Elephants or 109 thousand of the world largest passenger aircrafts
In the UK we throw away 13 billion steel cans every year, stacked on top of each other, you could make 3 piles of cans that would reach to the moon!
The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours
The energy saved from recycling 1 glass bottle is enough a power a lightbulb for four hours
Producing steel from recycled material saves 75% of the energy needed if steel were made from virgin material
Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over again into products like bicycles and of course new cans!
If every Briton purchased one item made from recycled wool a year it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family's electricity needs

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