"Most people don’t think twice about what they put in the garbage. The average American produces from 3-5 pounds of trash per day, which adds up to 50 tons per year. That means over 200 million tons of trash are produced by everyone in the U.S. every year! Up to 70% of this trash is buried in landfills.
The scary thing about this is that even though landfills are getting tons of new trash every day, more and more are closing down because they are too expensive to maintain. This is becoming a widespread problem across the U.S. as states struggle to find alternative ways to reduce the amount of trash accumulation.
Only about one-tenth of U.S. garbage actually gets recycled every year, when in reality over half of it can be recycled into new products. Recycling is one of the most important acts to follow in our daily lives because it can reduce the amount of waste in our landfills, sustain our natural resources and provide better air and water quality."
Summary: Most people do not even consider recycling, they just put everything in the garbage. Over 200 million tons of waste are produced by everyone in the United States every year. Landfills are becoming to expensive to run, and many of them are being closed down. However, there may be fewer landfills everyday, but there is more garbage everyday.
From this quote of Green Student Encyclopedia, it states a lot of facts about landfills and garbage waste. Landfills are becoming too expensive to run and most are being closed down. However, even though the landfills are being closed down we are still producing the same, if not more waste. Around 80% of what we throw away is recyclable, and 70% of that is taken to landfills rather than recycling plants. This can not go on for much longer. Landfills cost way more to run than recycling centers, and produce less jobs and less income for the states. Landfills are not going to be around forever, but recycling centers can be. Only one-tenth of U.S. garbage gets recycled every year, and this is ridiculous. Many states in the U.S. are struggling to find different ways to get rid of waste because landfills are too expensive to run. However, if more people would start to recycle this would not be a problem. We need to start making an effort to get more people to recycle, or pretty soon there will not be a spot left for garbage.
"Recycling." GreenStudentU.com. N.p., 2011. Web. 17 Mar 2011.&lhttp://www.greenstudentu.com/encyclopedia/recycling
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