How Much Garbage do Humans Make a Year?
The Environmental Protection Agency reports the United States produces approximately 220 million tons of garbage each year. This is equivalent to burying more than 82,000 football fields six feet deep in compacted garbage. There are no statistics readily available for the entire planet, but considering the United States makes up about 4% of the world’s population, this is a LOT. Likely, the entire planet’s yearly production of garbage to be somewhere in the vicinity of 4 to 5 BILLION tons. Here are more opinions and answers from others:
- Enough to cover Texas twice. This also fills enough trucks to form a line to the moon.
- Each American makes about 4 pounds of garbage daily. If the rest of the world produced as much as Americans, there would be about 10 MILLION tons daily, or 4 TRILLION tons yearly.
- Average Americans generate 4.3 pounds of trash per day. Do the math: 4.3 X 365 = 1569.5 pounds per person per year. 285 million people in the US = 447307.5 Million pounds of trash. The figure is consumer trash production on average and did not account for industrial waste, but it is a start.
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