http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/18/making-the-landfill-less-full/ Helping the Earth with Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/18/making-the-landfill-less-full/#comment-1631 Friday Favorites: States Speak Up, Green Nuns, Less Landfill, Eco-Moms and more… Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:21:31 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/18/making-the-landfill-less-full/#comment-1631 <p>[...] Making The Landfill Less Full: It’s a depressing reality that no matter how diligently you recycle, compost and repurpose, a huge amount of your trash still ends up baking in the sun in a landfill. The EPA estimates that U.S. residents and businesses produce more than 245 million pounds of MSW (that’s municipal solid waste, i.e. trash) per year — which works out to a whopping 4.5 pounds of waste per person per day…read more at Earth2Tech [...]</p> [...] Making The Landfill Less Full: It’s a depressing reality that no matter how diligently you recycle, compost and repurpose, a huge amount of your trash still ends up baking in the sun in a landfill. The EPA estimates that U.S. residents and businesses produce more than 245 million pounds of MSW (that’s municipal solid waste, i.e. trash) per year — which works out to a whopping 4.5 pounds of waste per person per day…read more at Earth2Tech [...]

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