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Abstract
Today the average American creates a little over 4 pounds of waste per day. Of that, roughly 1 ½ pounds is recycled or composted, meaning that more than 2½ pounds of waste per person per day is discarded to landfills or combusted (with energy recovery).
Publication Date
2-2015
Publication Number
HENV 105
Repository Citation
Osborne, Ashley, "Planning a Zero-Waste Event" (2015). Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications. 157.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anr_reports/157
