Garbology – Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
“What is America's largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy -- the biggest thing we make? Our trash. Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery...
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