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4.4 pounds: Trash the average American produces daily
1,600 pounds: Trash the average American produces annually. With the garbage produced in America alone, you could form a line of filled-up garbage trucks that reach the moon.
72 million tons: Amount of containers and packaging in 2009 in the U.S. municipal solid waste stream or MSW. Packaging makes up 30 percent of America’s trash — the largest portion of MSW generated.
60 percent: Amount of trash that can be recycled
13 percent: Amount of MSW that’s actually recycled
50 percent: Amount of household waste that can be composted
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