Facts and figures

Wiltshire's recycling rate The diversion rate for 2011/12 was 47.57% which equated to diverting 116,651 tonnes of municipal waste from landfill (a 1.6% increase on 2010/11 performance). Download the Annual Service Review 2011/12 which gives details of Hills Waste Solutions' performance on the Wiltshire Waste Contract.
Business Performance Review Hills Waste Solutions has published its first Business Performance Review in which the company sets out the base line criteria for making operations more efficient, reducing environmental impacts and engaging with stakeholders. Download a copy       Paper recycling milestone October 2011 - Wiltshire residents have recycled 150,000 tonnes of newspapers and magazines in the last decade. That's almost one tonne of recycled paper for every household in Wiltshire. Read more
Diverting waste from landfill August 2011 - Wiltshire has diverted one million tonnes of waste from landfill.  Read more

Did you know that 1 million tonnes =

• the weight of more than 500 Stonehenges
• 16,000 Challenge 2 Main Battle Tanks
• two Silbury Hills
• more than 29,000 unladen Hercules aeroplanes
• approximately 1.1million Wadsworth Shire horses
• 153 Salisbury Cathedral spires
• 66 billion empty aluminium soft drink cans
• 7.3 billion iPhones
• a million average sized family cars
• approximately 12.5 million average washing machines