UAE Statistics
Did you know…UAE per capita waste production, which stands at 3.4 to 3.8 kg per day, is one of the highest in the world with 52% of the waste being food leftovers, 16% paper products, 14% is plastic, 7% is glass and the remainder tins, cloths and other products.
Office Paper
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• The average office worker generates about 165 kg of waste each year.• 80% of that waste is recyclable paper products.
• Recycled office paper can become new office paper.
Cardboard
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• Cardboard boxes can contain up to 100% recycled fibres.• On average, the recycled content of a cardboard box is about 59%.
Newspaper
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• Recycling newspapers and magazines reduces the need for mining clay soils, which is used to make newsprint pulp.• Old newsprint is made into new newsprint (so the newspaper you're reading now may be the same newspaper you read two months ago!).
Plastics
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• Plastics take about 400 years to break down in a landfill.• Collected plastic bottles can be made into carpeting and fibrefill for pillows, sleeping bags and other forms of clothing, but can also be made into t-shirts and fleeces, automotive parts, and floor tiles!
• Most plastic containers have a code on the bottom that tells you what type of plastic it is.
Glass
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• It takes one million years for a glass bottle to break down in a landfill.• Recycled glass is used to create new bottles and jars, fiberglass, and is used as aggregate material in roads and sidewalks.
Aluminum
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• Recycling one aluminum container can save enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.• Aluminum takes 500 years to break down in a landfill.
• Aluminum is the most valuable recyclable material. When re-melted, aluminum containers can be used in any product made from aluminum.
• The lifespan of an aluminum can is about 6 weeks: that means that the time it takes for a beverage can to be manufactured, filled, sold, recycled, remanufactured and refilled is about 6 weeks.
Steel (Tin) Cans
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• When recovered steel is used instead of iron ore to make new steel, water consumption is reduced by about 50%.• It would take about 100 years for a steel can to break down through natural processes.
Did you know...
• Reducing your consumption can reduce greenhouse gas emissions• Reducing 500 tonnes of paper is equivalent to taking 340 cars off the road per year
• Reducing 500 tonnes of aluminum is equivalent to taking 1050 cars off the road per year
• Reducing 500 tonnes of glass is equivalent to taking 58 cars off the road per year
• Reducing 500 tonnes of plastic is equivalent to taking 205 cars off the road per year
• Reducing 500 tonnes of cardboard is equivalent to taking 215 cars off the road per year
Facts about climate change
Methane Gas
• Landfill sites account for a large percentage of methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a high global warming potential. Methane is 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.• Climate Change is the variation in the Earth’s climate over time, which can be from both natural and human-induced changes. Human activities alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the increase of greenhouse gases.
• Greenhouse gases trap heat and reflect it back to the earth’s surfaces. The result is changes in our climate, including a rise in global temperature and more frequent extreme weather events.
