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Introduction to GARBAGE!
Mrs. Trimble
Mrs. Perryman
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to
skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so
as to increase its usefulness, will result in
undermining in the days of our children the
very prosperity which we ought by right to
hand down to them amplified.
— Theodore Roosevelt
– 26th President of the United States of America
Can you make the matches?
• America’s waste
industry successfully
manages ______million
tons of household and
other municipal solid
waste annually
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4.34
302
247,000
100
243
Can you make the matches?
• The average
American discards
_____ pounds of
garbage every day .
2009 EPA Facts and
Figures
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4.34
302
247,000
100
243
Can you make the matches?
• Construction waste,
demolition waste and
non-hazardous
industrial waste
creates _____ million
tons of solid waste
each year (“Size of
the United States
Solid Waste Industry,”
R.W. Beck, Inc.
2001).
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4.34
302
247,000
100
243
Can you make the matches?
• The total volume of
solid waste produced
in the U.S. each year
is equal to the weight
of more than _____
space shuttles, or 2.3
million Boeing 747
jumbo jets (Beck).
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4.34
302
247,000
100
243
Can you make the matches?
• If we put all of the
solid waste collected
in the U.S. in a line of
average garbage
trucks, that line of
trucks could cross the
country, extending
from New York City to
Los Angeles, more
than ____ times
(Beck).
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4.34
302
247,000
100
243
How did you do?
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America’s waste industry successfully manages 243 million tons of
household and other municipal solid waste annually . 2009 EPA Facts and
Figures
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The average American discards 4.34 pounds of garbage every day . 2009
EPA Facts and Figures
•
Construction waste, demolition waste and non-hazardous industrial waste
creates 302 million tons of solid waste each year (“Size of the United
States Solid Waste Industry,” R.W. Beck, Inc. 2001).
•
The total volume of solid waste produced in the U.S. each year is equal to
the weight of more than 247,000 space shuttles, or 2.3 million Boeing 747
jumbo jets (Beck).
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If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average
garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from
New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times (Beck).
Oh wait; This is a lecture for another
day!
Is this a lot?
How does the US
compare?
First- make a guess- where
do you think the US
ranks in terms of the
amount of garbage
created by the average
person per year?
Types of Waste
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Municipal Solid Waste
Commercial Waste
Hazardous Waste
E- Waste
Agricultural Waste
The purpose of this unit
• Types of waste
• How we deal with
waste
• Solutions to waste
production
• New Technologies
• Future Technologies