According to the EPA (Enviromental Protection Agency), Americans produced 251
million tons of municipal solid waste in 2006. That’s 4.5 pounds a day for every man,
woman, and child in the country. The good news is 82 million tons of that waste was
recycled or composted. Good show people!

The materials recycled in 2006 the EPA estimates as follows:

Aluminum Cans ———- 45.1% (more…)

WASTED is a 30 minute show on the Planet Green Channel. The host (Annabelle Guriwitch
and Holter Graham), go into peoples homes and teach them how to cut down on their
waste thereby lowering their ecological footprint.

They developed an internationally recognized, ecological footprint calculator that
measures factors like waste, energy and fuel consumption and translates that data into
land size.

For example, in the episode I watched, a couple in an 1300 sq. ft. apartment in New
York City, calculated like this. Their living space is 0.03 acres, which should be
their footprint. However, their eco-footprint = 49.8 acres, 1600 times the size of
their property. (more…)