The average British consumer will get through 242 plastic bottles, 109 single-use coffee cups and 209 crisp packets each year.
Research of 2,000 UK adults revealed the typical person's annual rubbish waste also includes 378 snack wrappers, 251 cans, and 374 cardboard boxes or paper packets annually.
We will collectively throw away 468 million spray bottles from cleaning products and 520 million shampoo bottles every year.
It also emerged 83 per cent are not clear which of these items can and can not be recycled. As a result, the average Brit admits to throwing an estimated 30 per cent of their recyclable items into general waste.
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