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• Each year we generate about 100 million tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry.
• The average Australian child had more than 100 toys but that parents threw out or gave away only five toys a year. Almost all Australians admitted spending more than $100 on toys per child each year, with a small portion saying they splashed out $500.
• 66% of under-twelves in the West Midlands now receive between 10 and 50 toys per year, while a further 165 receive more than 50 - totalling at least 20 million new toys annually in the region. There are a variety of reasons for parents in the region disposing of toys – these include breakage (36%), old toys being replaced by new ones (28%) or children becoming bored of them (26%).
• 65% of parents in the region gave away toys to friends, family, nursery schools or charities, which was below the national average (69%), while 18 % said they put them straight in the bin. Just 7% of respondents in the Midlands said that they sold their children's discarded toys, compared to as many as 13% in some parts of the UK.
• Children in the UK received around £5 billion of Christmas presents in 2009. 
• The average UK child received around £380 worth of presents in 2009, compared to £316 in 2008.
• In total, UK kids had over £4 billion worth of toys and other presents underneath their trees, along with £960 million in cash, with each child receiving an average of £73. More than a quarter of lucky UK children got £100 or more.
• Around £200 is spent on presents that won’t make it past Easter
• The UK's toy industry is now worth a staggering £2.1bn a year.
• There are 400 million toys unused and unloved in homes in Britain. There are  21.5 million households in Britain , so that's  roughly 19 toys per household
• The phrase "comspicous consumption" was coined byThorstein Veblen, a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) and criticised our consumer culture .
• Dr. Jorge Majfud says that "Trying to reduce environmental pollution without reducing consumerism is like combatting drug trafficking without reducing the drug addiction."
• We are already consuming 30% more material than is sustainable from the world's resources. At present, 85 countries exceed their domestic "bio-capacities", compensating for their lack of local material by depleting stocks elsewhere, in countries that have "surpluses" because they're not consuming as much.