Anthony Cooper Blog post 3
Resource Waste:
Americans have the largest material requirements in the world, each directly or indirectly use an average of 125 pounds of material every day, or about 23 tons per year. All these materials consist of things like food, oil, wood, gravel, and fuel. Americans waste more than 1 million pounds per person per year. Domestically, we waste 28 billion pounds of food, 300 billion pounds of organic and inorganic chemicals used for manufacturing and processing, and 700 billion pounds of hazardous waste generated by chemical production. Also this doesn’t include what we extract from the earth like oil and coal, but say we did add that to the list that’s another 34 trillion pounds of waste.
The numbers of the things we waste are insane. That is why we need more recycling so we can use more of what is already there and making less because we wouldn’t need more if we had a cycle that everyone followed.
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