Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of four pounds per day per person, which translates to 600,000 tons per day or 210 million tons per year! This is almost twice as much trash per person as most other major countries.
Waste reduction is the process of reducing the amount of waste produced by a person or a society. The more waste that is reduced, the less new resources and energy are expended. In general, the fewer materials used, the less waste is produced.
While landfills get needlessly filled with things like bottled water containers and grocery bags, our planet gets polluted with toxins and deprived of its resources. There are innumerable creative ways to reduce your own waste, causing environmental savings in all categories. The three R’s of reduce, reuse, recycle are still the golden rule – search for Creative Solutions ™ that put them to action.
Here are some places you can go to find ways to save waste:
http://earth911.org/recycling/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling