Households in the United Kingdom are estimated to throw away 66 items of plastic packaging per week on average. This means that 1.85 billion plastic packaging items are thrown away each week across all UK households, equating to almost 100 billion items a year.
Estimated number of plastic packaging items thrown away each year by households in the United Kingdom as of 2022
During one week in May 2022, 97,948 households in the UK counted how many plastic packaging items they threw away. In total, 6.44 million pieces of plastic packaging waste were counted, giving an average of 66 items per household per week.
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