Solid Waste Stats
How much trash does one American make each day?
What is 2.2 kilograms or 5 pounds?
What is the most common way trash is thrown away in the U.S.?
What are sanitary landfills?
What kind of plastic trash is thrown away the most?
What are plastic water bottles?
How many pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the land in the U.S. in one year?
What is 3.4 billion pounds?
In 2019, how many kilograms of plastic waste did the U.S. send to other countries?
What is 350 million kilograms?
Do people in developed countries make more or less trash than people in developing countries?
What is more?
Trash in landfills can leak into what important water sources underground?
What is water wells, soil, and streams?
How many plastic bottles does the average American use each week?
What is 3?
What two parts of the U.S. have the most toxic waste?
What are the Midwest and Southeast?
What Asian country got over 100 million kilograms of U.S. plastic waste?
What is Malaysia?
What kind of material makes up most trash from homes and businesses?
What is paper?
Since 1990, how much has the number of landfills gone down in the U.S.?
What is by three-fourths?
Which Great Lake has the most plastic trash?
What is Lake Michigan?
Name one dangerous metal often found in hazardous waste.
What is mercury (or cadmium or zinc)?
True or False: The U.S. keeps and processes all its plastic trash inside the country.
What is False?
Which country makes the most trash per person?
What is the United States?
In which U.S. state is the landfill shown in the book photo?
What is California?
Only 1 out of every how many plastic bottles is recycled?
What is 6?
What U.S. group keeps track of toxic chemical waste?
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Why does the U.S. send trash to other countries?
What is to save space in landfills?
Which country produces the most solid waste?
What is the United States?
What’s one good thing about using big landfills instead of small dumps?
What is more space or better waste control?
How many tons of plastic go into the Great Lakes each year?
What is 10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds)?
What can happen to people if hazardous waste gets into the environment?
What are diseases like cancer or long-term health problems?
Why is it unfair that some countries get other countries’ trash?
What is because it can hurt poor countries more?