DIVERTING FACTS
Replacing the 3.3 billion petroplastic bin liners and 1.3 million stainless steel bins consumed in the UK annually with OneBin could help us divert finite resources to higher uses.
Replacing the 3.3 billion petroplastic bin liners and 1.3 million stainless steel bins consumed in the UK annually with OneBin could help us divert finite resources to higher uses.
Our ultimate ambition is that all stainless steel bins and petroplastic liners are replaced by OneBin and Compost-a-box.
Our ambition for OneBin is to enable the diversion of finite natural resources to higher uses. Our short term diversion objectives are shown below which do not include estimates of the resources consumed or pollutants arising from extraction, processing (except smelting coke) or disposal of the resources necessary to produce stainless steel bins and petroplastic liners.
Our ambition for Compost-a-box is to divert food waste to home produced compost thereby avoiding travel miles in disposal and associated CO2.
Embodied Resource Diversion Targets
Litres of Crude Oil
Year 1
243,000
Year 2
Year 3
450,000
729,000
Iron Ore kg
Year 1
9,563
Year 2
Year 3
15,649
26,523
Iron kg
Year 1
3,827
Year 2
Year 3
6,262
10,614
Chromite kg
Year 1
1,817
Year 2
Year 3
2,974
5,040
Chromium kg
Year 1
839
Year 2
Year 3
1,373
2,327
Furnace Coke kg
Year 1
2,295
Year 2
Year 3
3,755
6,365
Food Waste Diverted kg
Year 1
240,000
Year 2
Year 3
576,000
864,000
Co2 avoided (smelting) kg
Year 1
6,614
Year 2
Year 3
10,823
18,300
Co2 kg avoided by reduced food waste travel miles
Year 1
5,280
Year 2
Year 3
12,600
19,000
Food waste vehicle collections avoided
Year 1
20
Year 2
Year 3
48
72
Approximations based on average household consumption of 1 OneBin every 11 days, approximating to 3 petroplastic bin liners and the replacement of 1.3m stainless steel bins each year across the 28m households in the UK assuming a bin life of up to 20 years.
Embodied resource diversion relates to the resource contained within petroplastic liners and stainless steel containers