Of everything that Americans throw away:
- 55% ends up in landfills
- 31% gets recycled
- 14% is burned
Here's our garbage broken down by category:
- 79.9% is paper products
- 28.0% is yard trimmings
- 21.9% is food waste
- 19.8% is plastic
- 16.1% is metal
- 12.4% is glass
- 10.9% is wood
- the remaining 21.9% is anything not mentioned above