Nationwide garbage stats

• It’s estimated that this year 222 million tons of waste will be generated by Americans.
• Americans’ total yearly waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks long enough to wrap around the earth six times and reach halfway to the moon.
• Since 1950, people in the United States have used more resources than any generation who ever lived before them.
• Each American individual uses up 20 tons of basic raw materials annually.
• At the consumption level of the average American, at least four additional planets worth of resources would be needed to support the planet’s six billion inhabitants.
• By comparison, the average North American consumes ten times as much as the average person living in China and thirty times as much as the average person living in India.
• Why they call it junk mail…the U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 87 billion pieces of direct mail (advertising and promotional mail) every year.

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