1. 1.8 million tonnes of waste material was cleared from the clay pit to make way for Eden.
2. There are 2,480 tonnes of concrete in the foundation.
3. The largest biome - the humid tropics - is big enough to house the Tower of London and wide enough to house 24 buses end to end.
4. 85,000 tonnes of soil is being made for the site.
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5. EFTE weighs less than one per cent of the equivalent sized pane of glass, needs less steel to hold it up and lets more light through.
6. A London taxi could fit into one of the larger ETFE pillows.
7. Eden is in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest and largest mass-by-volume freestanding scaffolding structure in the world, taking over from the Millennium Dome in Greenwich.