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The total generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) in 2018 was 292.4 million tons (U.S. short tons, unless specified) or 4.9 pounds per person per day. Of the MSW generated, approximately 69 million tons were recycled and 25 million tons were composted.
Each year EPA produces a report called Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures. It includes information on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, recycling, and disposal.
The United States produces too much trash. In 2018 alone, America threw out over 292 million tons of municipal solid waste. That’s nearly 1,800 pounds per person every year.
EPA began analyzing data on waste and materials recycling more than two decades ago, and the Agency has data tables that go back to the 1960s. The Facts and Figures Report looks at generation, recycling, composting, combustion with energy recovery, landfilling for a variety of materials and products and other pathways for food.
Americans throw out 4.9 pounds of trash per person every day — that’s nearly 1,800 pounds of materials per American every year. The majority of waste (62%) discarded by homes and businesses in the U.S. is ultimately dumped into landfills or burned in incinerators.
The State of Food Waste in America by the numbers: The average household wastes an average of 6.2 cups of food per week, or 322 cups per year, which is enough to fill 360 medium-sized take-out containers. 87% of households reported wasting edible food the prior week.
It is estimated that the average U.S. household produces 19.36 metric tons of food waste per year, which is one of the highest amounts worldwide. MSW disposal methods
According to the latest available data, municipal waste generation in the country more than tripled between 1960 and 2018, nearing 300 million tons in the latter year.
According to the EPA, the average person in the U.S. produces 4.9 pounds of trash per day, as of 2018. That's equates to about 147 pounds of trash per person per month, or 1,788.5 pounds per year. That's up from 4.4 pounds per person each day in 2013.
We throw out over 2 billion tons of household waste a year globally. That’s more than 60 tons of waste every second. Every 2 hours we throw out enough stuff to fill the world's largest container ship with trash. That's 12 container ships every single day, and 4570 container ships in one year.