The Recycle for Cornwall campaign has been developed to raise public awareness of recycling and to provide consumers with a compelling reason to recycle.
2. It is estimated that 96% of our native peat bogs have now disappeared. The remaining 4% are under threat due to the demand for peat products – compost- from gardeners and growers.
3. The Romans introduced composting mare than 2,000 years ago as a way of building soil fertility
4. Every tonne of biodegradable waste produces 300-500 square meters of landfill gas. This gas accounted for 20% of the UKs methane emissions in 2002.
5. Up to 30% of the average households waste can be turned into valuable compost for your garden.
6. More than six million tree were bought in the UK last Christmas creating 9000 tonnes of additional rubbish
7. Wormeries are commonly used to speed up the composting process
8. Britain throws away about £20 billion worth of unused food every year, equal to five times our spending on foreign aid and enough to lift 150 million people out of starvation
9. In 2004/5, the average recycling rate of biodegradable waste was just 23%
10. In-vessel composting treats compostable materials in a closed system at up to 70 degrees for at least 100 days.
11. One facility can treat 25,000 tonnes of material per year.
