The Big Plastic Count at Second Satuday
We’re thrilled to invite you to an upcoming ‘The Big Plastic Count’ event in Birmingham! Our local Birmingham Advisory Group are hosting a free drop-in event sharing the results and what they mean for the local area.
Saturday 9 May 12-4pm Art meets action at this Birmingham drop-in. A community event sharing the results, discover local waste insights, take part in creative activities, and share your thoughts in an open discussion spaces and workplaces across the UK counted their waste for one week as part of the UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into plastic waste.
Now, we’ve crunched the numbers and processed the data, and our results reveal the shocking scale of the UK’s big plastic problem…
Over 68,000 people across the UK took part – The results reveal that households in the UK throw away an estimated 82 billion pieces of plastic packaging every year! Over half (59%) of our household plastic waste is being burnt here in the UK. Only 16% actually ends up being recycled. Another 16% is exported and 9% is buried in landfill.
Tell the Government they need to do more
Help put pressure on the Government to support our policy recommendations as a first step to doing more to tackle the UK’s big plastic problem. Click the button below to send a pre-written email to the ministers responsible for plastic waste in the UK.
Find out more on our website and visit us on Second Saturday 9th May.