Add It Up: Trash talkin’
November 19, 2007 at 5:00 am by Thomas Wheatley in Add it upPounds 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
November 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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…