US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

[GoneFishin]

US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

The world produces over two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste every year, enough to fill over 800,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.

Per head of population the worst offenders are the US, as Americans produce three times the global average of waste, including plastic and food.
US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis
US Tops List Of Countries Fuelling The Mounting Waste Crisis

 

[AnnieA]

US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

The world produces over two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste every year, enough to fill over 800,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.

Per head of population the worst offenders are the US, as Americans produce three times the global average of waste, including plastic and food.
US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis
US Tops List Of Countries Fuelling The Mounting Waste Crisis

I'm sure Jeff Bezos is about to run PSAs warning Americans of this...

 

[Brookswood]

Not sure why I would want to fill a pool with garbage , but landscaping tastes very.

The solution is to burn the garbage to produce electric power. We will need it for our electric cars, heat pumps, and AI computer farms.

 

[Nathan]

No big surprise here...

 

[dilettante]

It's a real problem:




This shows generated trash. Other ways of looking at it change the State by State balance. For example under NAFTA Canada is dumping waste from Ontario and Quebec in several U.S. States at incredibly high volumes. NIMBY is king up there.