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Environmental Statistics 

Recycling in the UK 2007-08

                                             Thousands of tonnes

Household waste from: 2000/01 2007/08
Regular household collection 16,655 13,046
Other household sources 1,381 1,073
Civic amenity sites 4,234 2,434
Household recycling 2,809 8,735
Total household waste: 25,079 25,287
Source: www.defra.gov.uk

Percentages waste going to landfill and recycling 2000/01 2007/08
Landfill 79% 54%
Recycled or composted 12% 34%

Source: www.defra.gov.uk

Household recycling rate 2000/01 2007/08
  11.2% 34.5%

Source: www.defra.gov.uk

 

Green Believers

  • 90% of evangelicals would like to see fellow Christians take a more active role in caring for creation in a biblical way. (62% of mainline Protestants agree, as do 52% of Catholics.)
  • 45% of evangelicals report making environmentally conscious lifestyle changes in the past year.
  • 85% of active churchgoers have never heard the term "creation care."
  • 64% of active churchgoers, told it means "being good stewards of the world God created," said they have never heard a sermon on the topic.

Source: www.barna.org (August 2008 survey), taken from the spring 2009 edition of Leadership Magazine