Together, we all throw away around 400m tonnes of waste in the UK every year. According to UK Government figures, about 30m tonnes of this is household waste – which includes 6m tonnes of discarded packaging. Over 60% of all packaging used in the UK is currently recycled in some way, but the materials and energy used to make non-recycled packaging are lost forever and too much of the UK’s waste still ends up on landfill sites.