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How much waste does the UK produce in a year?

April 26, 2017UK waste year

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How much waste does the UK produce in a year?

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An estimated 435 million tonnes of waste is produced in the UK every year. This is enough to fill Lake Windermere (in the Lake District, Cumbria) every nine months. In the UK each person throws away ten times their own weight in rubbish each year.