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Tidying room by Andy McDowall
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  • Post category:Environment
  • Post published:September 9, 2014

Each year in the UK households throw away almost 29 million tonnes of waste – the same as 4.3 million African Elephants.

Source: Why Do We Recycle? @ http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page517.aspx

Message supplied by: Alice @ Public Health, Norfolk County Council / Healthy Norwich initiative

Photo: Tidying room by Andy McDowall under Creative Commons license

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