Americans create and toss out an alarming amount of waste each year. According to the Clean Air Council…

Each day we fill up around 63,000 garbage trucks which means in a year we toss so much trash that if we piled it all up in garbage trucks it would form a line of trucks that will stretch from the earth, halfway to the moon.
A huge amount of waste generated in the U.S. is packaging (one-third).
We throw away 570 diapers per second. That’s insane.
Each hour we toss (not recycle) 2.5 million plastic bottles.
We make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the state of …read more