But few are recycled and nearly all end up in landfill, creating 25,000 tonnes of waste – enough to fill London's Royal Albert Hall.
Brown said the state will also take steps to minimize water system leaks, which, according to official estimates, waste enough water to supply 1.4m homes for a year.
Mr. Simmons also reported the recovery of medical waste "enough to fill two coffee can lids" and "pebble-sized grease balls".
By the end of the century, the UK will have around 300,000 cubic metres of higher activity radioactive waste, enough to fill about one quarter of Wembley Stadium.
The UK has accumulated around 4.5m cubic metres of nuclear waste – enough to fill Wembley stadium four times over – since the development of nuclear facilities began after the second world war.
Even a few thousand sufficiently wised-up people replying to a classic "Nigerian Prince" email might, from the senders' point of view, waste enough of their time to wipe out all hopes of profit from the scheme.
-To create just the amount of food that ends up in the landfills we waste enough water to meet the domestic water needs of every American citizen.
