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Add It Up: Trash talkin’

November 19, 2007 at 5:00 am by Thomas Wheatley in Add it up

Pounds of trash the average American generates daily: 3.3

Pounds of trash the average Georgian generates daily: 6.6

Tons of solid waste disposed of in Atlanta in 2003: 192,363

Tons of recycling collected in 2003: 27,910

Cost of disposing Georgia’s trash in 2004: $90 million

Value of raw materials made if that trash would have been recycled: $250 million

Amount of greenhouse gases, in million metric tons, kept out of the air in 2000 because of recycling: 32.9

Tons of garbage a StarTech Plasma Converter could annihilate in one day and convert into energy: 2,000

Cost of a StarTech Plasma Converter: $250 million

Sources: Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Department of Public Works, Popular Science, National Recycling Coalition, “Georgia Statewide Waste Characterization Study,” Georgia Department of Community Affairs


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One Response to “Add It Up: Trash talkin’”

  1. Victor Jones Says:

    1)Cost of disposing Georgia’s trash in 2004: $90 million
    2)Value of raw materials made if that trash would have been recycled: $250 million

    I hope someone at the Georgia Legislature is reading this…

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