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One ton = 2000 LBS One ton = approx one female walrus One ton = 2032 pints of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream One ton = GB ipods One ton = 250 gallons of milk One Pound = 16 ounces One pound = the average mouse

More than half of the world's municipal waste is generated in developed countries. In the United States, for example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average American produces well over how many tons of trash each year ? Image by flickr user ThreadedThoughts used under a Creative Commons license

The average person residing in the United States generates 75 tons of trash per year.

Industrialized countries generate more than 90 per cent of the world's annual toxic and hazardous waste. How many million tons of toxic and hazardous waste per year does this represent? Image by flickr user ThreadedThoughts used under a Creative Commons license

375 million tons of toxic and hazardous wastes are created per year. All this waste has to be chemically treated or stored

Approximately what percentage of the raw materials extracted for use in manufacturing durable products becomes waste before the product is manufactured

94 % of the raw materials extracted for use in manufacturing durable products becomes waste before the product is manufactured

Each year the U.S. disposes of or destroys more than how many tons of hazardous waste? By Andy Shustykevych [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( s.org/licenses/by- sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Each year U.S. government agencies and private corporations dispose of or destroy 30 million tons of hazardous waste

Methane produced by landfills is a major greenhouse gas. How many more times more potent is methane than CO2 in emitting greenhouse gases into the environment? plastic in a landfill © creative commons

Methane is 20 to 30 times more potent as a green house gas than CO2

In 2005 the average US resident generated approximately how many pounds of waste per person per day.

The average U.S. resident generates 4.5 lbs of waste per person per day

Currently, in the United States, 32 percent of waste is recovered and recycled or composted, 54 percent is disposed of in landfills What percentage is burned at combustion facilities? Photo: D'Arcy Norman via Flickr, Creative Commons BY

14% of U.S. household waste is burned at combustion facilities

How many million plastic bottles do North Americans throw away every hour ?

North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

Every year how many million tons of leaves and grass clippings do we put in the trash, which could otherwise be composted to conserve landfill space? Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

We throw away 24 million tons of grass and lawn clippings that could otherwise be composted and kept out of overflowing landfills

How many pounds of Hazardous Household Waste does the typical U.S. suburban home produce each year?

The average U.S. suburban home produces 15 pounds of hazardous Household Waste per year including medications, paints and solvents and automotive products.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, what percentage of used and discarded electronics are in storage at facilities where consumers have brought them for recycling? Spy Hill Landfill, Calgary, Canada [Image: D'Arcy Norman under CC-BY licence] D'Arcy Norman CC-BY

According to the EPA nearly 75 percent of used consumer electronics are in storage facilities where people have brought them for recycling. This happens in part because people don't know what to do with them. Most consumer electronics are actually disposed on in hazardous waste landfills as it is too costly to recycle the parts.

How much high-level nuclear waste annually in tons does the average nuclear reactor generate? (Photo by Samat Jain via Creative Commons )

The average nuclear reactor generates 20 to 30 tons of high-level nuclear waste annually A total of 441 nuclear power plants were operating in the world as of February 2003.

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