Civic Centre Access Restrictions
VISITORS to Hartlepool Civic Centre and the adjoining Law Courts are advised that essential repair work is ongoing at the front entrance to the building. Access is restricted during these works
Recycling Facts and Figures
In Britain we produce enough rubbish every day to fill Trafalgar Square right to the top of Nelsons Column
Around 60% of the rubbish that you throw in your wheelie bin can be recycled, yet we only currently recycle 11%...that means that there is plenty of room for improvement!
Here are a few facts and figures about recycling:
- The average Hartlepool family throws away 6 trees worth of paper in their wheelie bin each year.
- Each year food shops give away enough carrier bags to cover the whole of London with a layer of bags - each bag that goes to landfill will take 500 years to decay.
- We use over 6 billion glass bottles or jars each year. It would take over 3500 years to sing "six billion green bottles".
- Everyday 80 million food and drink cans end up in landfill - that's one and a half cans per person. In a year, each person could fill a bath with the contents of these cans.
- The average person throws away 74kg of organic waste each year, which is equivalent to 1077 banana skins - almost all of this could be composted.
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Email: customer.service@hartlepool.gov.uk
Telephone: 01429 266522
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