Trash

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 The Environmental Protection Agency reported that in 2006, “… U.S. residents, businesses, and institutions produced more than 251 million tons of municipal solid waste, which is approximately 4.6 pounds of waste per person per day.”  (http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/index.htm)  

In other words, each person in the U.S. created, on average, 1,679 pounds of trash that year.