That figures: Hats off to the recycling body Repak which is great for producing timely if entirely useless facts and figures to draw attention to its reports.

Apparently enough material in Ireland last year was recycled to fill the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing and enough wood was recycled to create a gymnastics balance beam stretching from Dublin to Beijing. In case you were wondering, there was also enough metal recycled to create one giant hammer 24 metres in diameter and all the aluminium recycled could have created over 2.4 million Olympic relay batons.