According to the EPA, each person produces 4.40 pounds of garbage each day.
This adds up extremely quickly and there are about 230 million tons of municipal garbage produced each year.
This garbage ends up in landfills that create water pollution, air pollution, and generate a horrendous smell that affects all the communities that surround it.
These landfills will be around much longer than us, as plastic takes up to 100-400 years to breakdown entirely in a landfill.
Therefore, we need to reduce the number of things we all use, slowing the growth of landfills.
