You Are What You Toss
Meet the 90,000-pound "garbage monster"... you
There are about 1.6 billion homes in the world, and about 100 million in the United States alone. Yours is where you spend most of your time. It's also where you use the most energy and water, and create the most waste.
You create 4.5 pounds of trash every day.
Over the course of your life, that will total 600 times your average adult weight... in garbage.
Put another way, you can visualize your lifetime trash impact as a "monster" weighing 90,000 pounds. Her torso would be paper. One leg would be yard trimmings, the other food scraps. One arm would be plastic with a rubber hand. The other would be metal with a wood hand. Her head would be glass, and her neck would be all the other stuff.
In the end, we will each leave a 90,000-pound legacy of trash for our grandchildren.
So, what can you do?- Recycle your life, from your clothes to your leftovers
- Make the most out of what you already have
- 12 ways to reduce your trash output
- Teach your kids the (other) 3 R's
- Discover how to save water, money, time and energy
