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WSJ ~ American’s Garbage Costing Communities Big $$$.
WSJ ~ American’s Garbage Costing Communities Big $$$.
Wall Street Journal, Grappling With a Garbage Glut, April 14th, 2012.
American’s need to pay attention to their trash, the cost of disposing of all this to American communities is huge.  On average a community spends more money on waste management than on fire protection, parks and recreation, libraries or schoolbooks, according to U.S. Census data on municipal budgets.
Los Angeles has constructed a garbage mountain 500 feet high.
New York City carts out 12,000 tons of trash a day.
The average American tosses out 4.4 pounds of trash per day with the USA population at around 313,000,000+ and growing that is a lot of trash.
In Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark all send less than 4% of their trash to landfills. Recycling rates are two to three times higher than America’s along with community base utilities that burn trash to provide electricity.
To be more aware of where your trash goes take a count next week on your trash output. Last week I counted my trash, 7 bags total with:-
1 bag going to compost 2 bags bottles and can recycle 1 bag paper recycle 3 bags garbage. We have ... more

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