Transcript A ‘rubbish’ lesson. What does it cost our families? • In Ipswich refuse is collected from over 55,000 domestic properties every week. •

A ‘rubbish’ lesson.
What does it cost our families?
• In Ipswich refuse is collected from over 55,000
domestic properties every week.
• The cost of collecting refuse from each home
every week is £38 per year.
What does it cost each household each week?
What is the total yearly charge to Ipswich
households to have their rubbish collected?
How much rubbish is not recycled?
In 2005 about 380kg of
rubbish, per person, was
buried in landfill sites in
the UK.
The UK population is about
60 million. How much
rubbish was that?
22.6 million tonnes
of waste was put into
landfills in the UK
in 2004/5.
The UK came first…..
In the total rubbish dumped!
Look again…..
The facts (data)
• The UK dumped 22.6 million tonnes of
rubbish
• The other countries with the highest
amount of household rubbish thrown into
landfill were Italy at 17.6 million tonnes
and Spain at 14.2m.
• France sent around 12 million tonnes to
landfill, Poland 8.6m and Germany 7.3m
• Draw a bar chart to show this information.
The good news…..
• Between 2005/6 and 2006/7, the
proportion of household waste which was
recycled or composted rose from 27.1% to
30.7%, according to the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
• And the amount being sent to landfill fell
from 17.9 million tonnes to 16.9 million
tonnes
The bad news……
• The Local Government Association
warned that an area of 109 square miles
was already used as landfill in the UK.
• if the current trend continues, the UK
could run out of landfill space in under
nine years.
So RECYCLE!