May 22nd, 2007 - Garbage update

Garbage
* the average American generates about 4.5 lbs of garbage PER PERSON, PER DAY.
* A 90% reduction would mean .45 lbs of garbage PER PERSON, PER DAY.
* Us: 0.8-1# per person per day, or about 22% of average

I updated yesterday’s averages after weighing 2 weeks’ garbage this morning. We had about 48# in the container, which included bags from pet food (only in about once every 6 weeks), some materials from construction (not a lot, but some), and the container itself. I weighed the morning’s litterbox findings, for an average of 1/2# per day. I estimate the same for dog poop, but I’m not when Eric last scooped, so not sure if any was in there or not. (Why would the 10x bigger dogs have the same weight in poop as the cats? A number of reasons: a) Cats’ includes litter weight. b) Cats’ includes pee. c) we don’t always get all the dog poop. and d) I’m not sure I actually want to weigh a dog poop. Maybe I will…..)

I should weigh a couple more times to get an average. But I’m pretty delighted to see it at 22%. I knew it was less since we put out so little garbage, are consciencious about recycling, compost food waste, and don’t buy a lot of processed foods or junk products.

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