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Americans throw away twice as much as thought<a href="https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/americans-throw-away-twice-as-much-as-thought/" rel="attachment wp-att-773762"></a> If the amount of trash found in US landfills were divvied up amongst all 316 million people, it would mean that we each toss out five pounds of trash per day. You read that right: Per day! These findings come from <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2804.html">Yale</a> researchers who calculated the actual (instead of estimated) volume of garbage that landfills were reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/'>READ ARTICLE</a>1
Bald Eagle Landfill<a href="https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/americans-throw-away-twice-as-much-as-thought/" rel="attachment wp-att-773762"></a> If the amount of trash found in US landfills were divvied up amongst all 316 million people, it would mean that we each toss out five pounds of trash per day. You read that right: Per day! These findings come from <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2804.html">Yale</a> researchers who calculated the actual (instead of estimated) volume of garbage that landfills were reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/'>READ ARTICLE</a>2
Landfill<a href="https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/americans-throw-away-twice-as-much-as-thought/" rel="attachment wp-att-773762"></a> If the amount of trash found in US landfills were divvied up amongst all 316 million people, it would mean that we each toss out five pounds of trash per day. You read that right: Per day! These findings come from <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2804.html">Yale</a> researchers who calculated the actual (instead of estimated) volume of garbage that landfills were reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/americans-are-sending-twice-as-much-trash-to-landfills-than-previously-thought/'>READ ARTICLE</a>3