Britain From Above - Facts and figures

In a landmark series of documentaries presented by Andrew Marr, spanning BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and bbc.co.uk, Britain From Above will change the way viewers see the nation forever.

- East London's Beckton Sewage Plant – all 280 football pitches worth of tanks, troughs and waterways – is one of the largest in Europe.

- On an average day, Britain's water pipes carry 16 billion litres of water – enough to fill 18 million bathtubs

- At the peak of the working day Britons send over 5000 texts.

- 109 square miles of British countryside is just used for landfill.

- Between 7 and 10am, 36m Britons will be on the move commuting to school or the office.

- The average road user will spend over six months of their life stuck in traffic jams.

- The English Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world: on a typical day over 400 vessels travel through the Dover Straits, the biggest of which weigh up to 150,000 tonnes and take 3.5miles to come to a stop.

- Every day more than 7,500 civilian aircraft crowd Britain's airspace, carrying more that half a million passengers.

- Merseyside's Ellesmere Port refinery loads an output of 11 million litres on to waiting tankers every day.

- Over three quarters of a billion pounds in hard cash is transported around the roads of Britain every day. Driving one of the vans is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country with sometimes 15 attacks a week.

- There are more than 500,000 HGVs ploughing the nation's motorways.

- Every day the nation's rubbish trucks collect more than 82,000 tonnes of refuse.