New Zealanders use over 22 million plastic bags each week and about 800 million plastic bags each year most of which end up in the landfill.

It takes 500 years for a plastic bag to break down in landfill.

25 plastic bottles makes 1 eco fleece

1 cup of crude oil goes into 1 disposable nappy.

Every month, waste going to landfill from people living and working in Auckland city is enough to fill a rugby field to a height of 5 stories.    

Every year NZ industries and households discard over 3 million tonnes of construction and demolition debris into landfills and cleanfills. This represents 1 tonne per person.      

Over 50% of packaging waste is imported into NZ.

Steel cans that have contained anything from baked beans to fruit cocktail, pet food or soup can be recycled to make new cars and bridges.

A styrofoam vending cup can be made into a pencil or pen.

Plastic bags and containers can be recycled into garden furniture, decking and fencing.

90% of our wetland has been lost.

Auckland Region has 56 threatened animal species and 105 threatened plant species.

Only 12% of our total land area in the Auckland Region is in native forest.

The risk of disaster is increasing. All households need to be prepared for 3 days without water, power or transport - less than 10% are aware.

Auckland air pollution exceeds World Health Organisation safety standards.

In the Auckland region 250 people are dying every year due to pollution from motor vehicles.

Our carbon monoxide levels are higher than London.

80% of peak hour cars only have the driver in them.

Among the fine particulate pollution above Auckland is equivalent to 500 bags of cement being shaken into our air every day.

t is estimated that over 45,000 cigarette butts enter our harbours every day.

Every year over 1000 native fish are killed as a result of storm water pollution.

It is estimated that over 500,000 litres of detergent and 80,000kg of our pollutants are entering the regions streams and harbours every year as a result of car washing.

There are 250 urban streams in the region - last year alone 10 were sterilised as a result of storm water pollution ie.  everything was killed.  These streams take over 10 years to recover - some never recover.

In 1993, the Taranaki Regional Council estimated that the regions dairy farmers use 13,000 kilometres of plastic biodegradable silage wrapping each year. This is enough to encircle Egmont National Park 150 times.

Recycling generates more jobs than other waste management options. Six times more jobs are created by recycling than are created by land filling.

Recycling paper cause 35% less water pollution, uses 65% lass water and creates 75% less air pollution.

Each tonne of newsprint that is recycled saves 3 cubic metres of landfill space.

Using 250 kilograms of paper then recycling that saves about 4.6 average size trees a year. Over a life time of 70 years that is 325 trees per person. At that rate a city the size of Toronto could save 1.3 billion trees by recycling.

Recycling 1 glass bottle saves the equivalent energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.

Recycling an aluminium can is the same as saving half a can of gasoline.

The savings in energy using recycled glass is 25%, for iron 74%, for copper 90% and for aluminium the savings are 95%.

Recycling aluminium uses 5% of the energy needed to manufacture new aluminium.

Adding old glass to batches of new glass requires 25% less energy to operate the furnaces.

Approximately 500 billion litres of sewage that flow into your 258 public waste water treatment plants each year.