The Secret Life of Garbage
- The average American produces 10 times their body weight in garbage every year.
- Enough trash is produced in the U.S. every year to cover the state of Texas twice.
- Americans throw away enough aluminum for the entire auto industry to build new cars for a year.
- Only 1 in 5 plastic bottles are recycled in the U.S.
- Over the last 30 years, recycling plastics has saved 150 million barrels of oil.
- The world throws away over 750 million tons of garbage each year, and not all of it ends up in landfills.
Learn more at http://www.cnbc.com/id/38830389/ and http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/stories/the-secret-life-of-garbage-infographic
