Approximately half of the solid waste produced in the united states is agricultural or farm waste, which is generally recycled into the soil, ground, earth, or fields on the farms where it is produced.
- Each American creates more than 1,700 pounds of it annually, totaling 239 million tons. China and India produce more waste, or not? Yes, they together bear responsibility for 27% of the world's rubbish.
- Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in 2018 totaled 292.4 million short tons (U.S. short tons, unless otherwise noted), or 4.9 pounds per person each day.
- About 69 million tons of the MSW produced were recycled, and 25 million tons were composted.
- Only 94.2 million tons of the 267.8 million tons of municipal solid trash that Americans produced in 2017 were recycled or composted, according to the EPA.
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