1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds (2.1 kilograms) per day per person
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 pounds is recycled or compost
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
- 251 million tons
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
- a dump is a whole in the ground and a landfill ic created above the ground
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
- so the trash doesnt get cought on fire
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
- for senatary reasons so it doesnt hurt the enviornment.
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
- over population of trash.
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