Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Cromwell Polythene is keen to reduce its environmental footprint. 80% of our stock range is made from 97% recycled polythene. Our mission is to sell products made from recycled material into the waste management sector, and encourage their use, to aid the development of sustainable markets.

Plastic bags of all types - deemed by many to be a large part of the litter problem - are actually far less than 1% of all litter (Wrap Dec 2002)

Since their introduction some forty years ago, plastic bags and sacks have provided the waste management professional with the lowest cost, lowest volume method of localised waste containment with the lowest overall environmental impact (CBC Issues Briefing Jan 2004)

Plastic film products of all types comparise only 3% of the domestic waste stream with plastic carrier bags just 0.3% (CBC Issues Briefing Jan 2004)

If Europe were to follow Denmark's lead, it is estimated that 30 million tonnes of oil each year could be saved by burning waste plastics in energy from waste plants (CBC Issues Briefing Jan 2004)

Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could be recycled.

The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours.

The largest lake in Britain could be filled with rubbish from the UK in 8 months.

On average, 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ultimately ends up as rubbish.

As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.

Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.

275,000 tonnes of plastic are used each year in the UK, that's about 15 million bottles per day.

It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.

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