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Number Crunching

By team ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

£370m: the cost of removing the litter from Britain’s streets, waterways and open spaces every year.
- The Guardian, 10 March
£5m: the cost of moving shopping trolleys from rivers alone.
- The Guardian, 10 March
122: tonnes of cigarette-related litter is dropped each day across the UK.
- The Guardian, 10 March
£80: the current spot fine for littering.
- The Guardian, 10 March
23 high street butchers’ shops close per month, the meat industry said yesterday. The number of butchers in Britain has dropped from 9,081 in 2000 to 7,186.
- The Daily Telegraph, 8 March
3.2 million people have five or more credit cards.
- The Guardian, 8 March
35 out of the world’s 1,125 billionaires are British
- The Independent, 9 March
One in four teen girls has a sexual disease in the US
- The Guardian, 12 March
Four pubs a day are closing down
- The Guardian, 8 March
One million people have joined the organ donor register through their Boots loyalty card.
- The Guardian, 8 March