WRAP: Brits bin more than one billion recyclable items a year

Stuart Stone
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More than a billion recyclable bottles, sprays, and toilet roll tubes are incinerated or dumped in landfill each year, new statistics show

UK households are throwing out more than a billion items a year that could be recycled, according to new data released to coincide with the start of Recycle Week 2024. New statistics from WRAP detailed...

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