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Bernardo de La Paz

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5. Consumers are a bit clueless about their impact on the environment

Reply to Effete Snob (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 16, 2023, 03:03 PM

Mar 2023

It's 2 kilograms (about 5 pounds) a day per capita of municipal waste. (EPA figures for 2018, Canada is worse)

That doesn't count manufacturing waste or business waste or retail/wholesale waste or agricultural waste or municipal wastewater sludge.

Even so, at 5 pounds per person per day, means a household of 4 produces about 7,300 pounds or 3.5 tons of waste a year.

Suppose the truck carries 10,000 lb of waste. That's a week's worth of garbage for 71 families. An apartment building or a small subdivision.

Every week.

Only 30% of garbage is recycled.

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