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Our mission at Cromwell is to sell products made from recycled material into the waste management sector, and encourage their use, to aid the development of sustainable markets.
Some recycling facts and figures that help keep us on top of our game and encourage us to do better include:
- A person driving 20 miles extra per year will leave a bigger carbon footprint than the average household consumption of polythene carrier bags.
- Plastic shopping bags comprise only 0.05% of landfill
- Around 300,000 tonnes of used plastic films are collected in the UK for recycling every year.
- Plastic shopping bags use 70% less material today than they did 20 years ago.
- Good quality recycled material is needed to ensure high quality second-life products.
- So-called degradable plastics contain additives which could risk contaminating a major national recycling effort.
- The explosion of free newspapers has a greater impact on the environment than carrier bags. eg Metro - same weight of waste as 4 billion plastic carrier bags. Therefore 3 days of Metro is equivalent to a whole years plastic carrier bags!
- In landfill, Plastic bags generate 60% less greenhouse gas emissions than uncomposted paper bags, and 79% less greenhouse gas emissions than composted paper bags. The plastic bags generate 3,097 tons of CO2 equivalents per 100 million bags; while uncomposted paper bags generate 7,621 tons, and composted paper bags generate 14,558 tons, per 100 million bags produced. *
- It takes 91 percent less energy to recycle the same weight of plastic than it takes to recycle of paper. :*
- * Taken from the review of Plastic vs. Paper Bag LCA Studies 1 June 2007
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The three Rs that will minimise our environmental footprint- reduce, reuse, recycle. Our mission is to sell products made from recycled material into the waste management sector.
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