Food For Thought!!!

In the UK around 15million TVs are left on standby for 20 hours per day. If they were all switched off, we'd save enough energy to decommission an entire power station

£90 million of bakery waste is thrown away by Scottish households every year - that's enough to make everyone in Scotland a sandwich a day for the next 6 months!

£70 million of fresh fruit waste is thrown away every year - that's the equivalent of an apple a day for every school child and teacher in Scotland for a year and a half!

£130 million of meat and fish waste is thrown away by Scottish households every year - that's enough to make everyone in Scotland a bacon buttie every Saturday for the next year!

£93 million of dairy waste is thrown away by Scottish households every year - that's enough for everyone in Scotland to have milk on their cereal for the next 6 months!

Recycling just one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a washing machine for 10 minutes. Every tonne of glass recycled saves 135 litres of oil and 1.2 tonnes of ash, sand and limestone.

99.96% of UK tap water tests by the Drinking Water Inspectorate passed quality sampling
A quarter of all bottled water is simply filtered tap water
£2 would buy you 10,000 litres of tap water versus two litres of bottled water

Six million litres of bottled water are drunk in the UK every day

It takes seven litres of water to make a single one-litre plastic bottle

27 million tonnes of plastic are used worldwide to bottle water each year

To make the 13 billion plastic bottles used annually in the UK requires more than 8m barrels of oil a year, enough to fuel more than 400,000 cars for a year.

Of 13 billion plastic bottles sold in the UK last year, only 3 billion were recycled

A litre of bottled water generates up to 600 times more CO2 than a litre of tap water.
Transporting bottled water between source, bottling plants and central distribution points creates 33,200 tonnes of CO2 each year in the UK alone

On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks

Every year an estimated 17.5 billion plastic bags are given away by supermarkets

A single tree will absorb one tonne of carbon dioxide over its lifetime

A dripping tap wastes at least 5,500 litres of water a year: that's enough water wasted to fill a paddling pool every week for the whole summer.

By everyone just boiling the amount of water needed when making a hot drink we can save enough energy to power over 7 million TVs for a year.

Switch appliances off at the wall
Avoid leaving TVs, videos, computers or music systems on standby and remember not to leave appliances such as mobile phones on charge unnecessarily. Even while on standby, most appliances use electricity, so switch off and save on your electricity bill.
Switch off when not in use. NB: Standby is NOT off
e.g. Mobile phone chargers
saving: £60 million electricity and 250,000 tonnes of CO2 per year (UK-wide).
e.g. Turning off televisions at night
saving: enough energy to power a 150,000 person town.
The average household wastes £37 each year by leaving appliances on standby.
Across the UK this is equivalent to the annual output of about 2½ 700MW power stations.
Households in the UK now spend around 10% of their electricity bill on standby power.
The average household has up to 12 gadgets left on standby or charging at any one time.