BY NUMBERS

744m

plastic bottles are sold in Scotland every year.

674m

cans are sold every year.

8.6

per cent of all litter collected in Scotland is plastic bottles.

9.1

per cent of all litter collected in the country is glass bottles.

8m

items of litter enter the sea every day.

22,000

tons of cans and plastic bottles are sent to landfill every year in Scotland.

1m

sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year due to ingestion of and entanglement in marine litter

5p

or 10p would be the additional refundable charge under the proposed bottle deposit scheme.

75

per cent of Scots said they were in favour of a bottle deposit scheme in a recent survey.