Waste disposal- blog 7
Waste disposal in the U.S.
Caleb Monnig
Averaging 4.9 pounds of trash per person a day, the U.S is the most wasteful country on the planet. Over the last 3 decade, the U.S. recycling and composting has more than doubled, however the nuke broke of available landfills has shrunk by 74%. Of the 580 landfills owned by municipalities, 300of those will close over the next decades as they reach capacity. Although we are running out of landfills and they continue to shrink, the amount of waste continues to grow, which will soon create more and more environmental stress to communities. In Maine, their waste generation increased 2.5%, where much of the at waste went to Jupiter Ridge Landfill, along with hundreds of thousands of tons of waste from other states. Since 2012, the amount of waste going into Jupiter Ridge has increased by 31%, and if nothing is done to slow this down there will be many more landfills dealing with this problem in the next few decades.
Caleb, I enjoyed reading your post and I honestly did not know about the U.S being the most wasteful country in the world. I also like how your post was informative because of landfills running out which can affect several communities.
ReplyDeleteTruly some eye opening statistics. It’s things like this you can’t put into perspective without the numbers. Ive been to the landfill in Columbia and have seen the massive mound of trash, but it never occurred to me how much waste it actually was.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the blog. I had no idea that the U.S had that much waste per year. That's both incredible and terrible. Considering that there are only 330 million people hear in the U.S. I'm surprised that China doesn't have more than us.
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