Some facts its good to know about plastics:
- The world's annual consumption of plastics has increased from around 5 million tonnes in the 1950s to nearly 100 million tonnes today.
- All types of plastic are recyclable (but not every council is set up to recycle them yet)
- Plastics makes up around 7% of the average household dustbin.
- Only 2.5% of plastic bottles are recycled in Europe.
- It takes about 25 recycled plastic drinks bottles to make one fleece jacket
- 1.8 tonnes of oil are saved for every tonne of recycled polythene produced.