• The toilets at the Eden Project won the Best Loo in Britain award in 2003.
• 95% of the staff are locals
• The average visit time is just under 4 hours.
• 30% of visitors have never been to Cornwall before.
• The Eden Project is the third most popular charging tourist attraction in the UK with nearly two million visitors in it's first year.
• The domes are covered in ethyl tetra fluoro ethylene (ETFE for short) which is about 1% of the weight of glass.
• Some of the James Bond movie, Die Another Day, were filmed in the grounds of the Eden Project.
• The Eden Project won the "Project of the Decade" award in 2006.
• The copper covering the Core roof beams is sourced from a single mine in Rio Tinto.
• Planning permission for the Eden Project demands that at least 20% of visitors travel to the site other than in cars.
• 85,000 tonnes of soil was originally made for the Eden Project.
• 22 litres of water are collected every second which is about 20,000 baths every day.
• The crater on which the site is built is 60m deep.  
   

Social impacts:

• More jobs are created directly and indirectly
• Brings people together and gives them a place to go
• Improves locals knowledge of plants and wildlife
• An annual event is held to thank the locals for their support
• In the winter the Eden project targets the local economy with things such as ice skating
• 3000 jobs have been sustained in the local area due to the success of the Eden project
• The plants have been used for medical research into cures for illnesses
  
  

Economic impacts:

 

• The local economy raised 22.3 million in 2007/8. 75% of which came from the Eden project directly 17% came from fundraising and 8% from functions such as concerts all due to the Eden project.
• Lots of jobs went to locals which will provide more money for the local area and boost the rest of the areas economy causing a positive multiplier effect.
• They are self sufficient for energy which will reduce there cost of running the project so in the winter when there are few tourists they wont waist lots of money on running the Eden project for little or no profits 
  
  

Environmental impacts:

 

• The area was a large disused mine
• There is a large concentration of plants which could struggle to survive in nature
• It aimed to cut the impact of global mining
• They use a geothermal energy system to reduce there carbon footprint
  
  
  

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