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Britain uses 20 times more plastic now than it did 50 years ago.
By quantity, most packaging is plastic (53%), followed by paper/cardboard (25%), glass (10%), metals (7%) and mixed materials (5%).
Britons use 275,000 tons of plastic bottles each year – 15 million a day.
Most water bottles are made from PET plastic, a crude oil extract. 8% of oil production goes into plastics.
Recycling just one plastic bottle can save the same amount of energy needed to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours. www.recoup.org.
Recycling Locations:
Harrogate Household waste recycling centre
Address: Wetherby Road HG2 7SZ
Website: http;//www.harrogate.gov.uk
Sainsburys
Address: Wetherby Road HG2 8QZ