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The average U.S person now consumes twice as much as they did 50 years ago.

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NERDs

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"...[T]he total plastic content of the gyres exceeds(probably by a lot) 157 million tons."

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"Synthetic fabric can shed up to 1,900 tiny plastic fabric fibers with each wash, and these tiny bits are flushed down the drain" (Garbology)

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Mountains of junk mail and garbage bags filled the detritus of daily life

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"We the U.S. have 5% of the worlds population but we're consuming 30% of the worlds resources and creating 30% of the worlds waste." (Story  of Stuff)

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every person in America stands atop more than 35 tons of waste a year-or a staggering average lifetime legacy of 2,700 tons.

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"A single person's trash legacy will require 1,100 graves," (Garbology, Humes 4)

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Story of Stuff                       "each of us in the US is targeted with more than 3000 advertisements a day"

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Story of Stuff                       "each of us in the US is targeted with more than 3000 advertisements a day"

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In the informational video (The Story of Stuff) the woman talks about how producers use planned obsolescence. So when they make products they design them to break after a certain time period where even though the product broke they still have enough faith in the product to buy another one. Instead of the producers trying to make their product dependable and last a long time they are just adding on to our trash production. Our culture, identity, and economy is bound up with consuming and producing excessive amounts of waste.

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In the informational video (The Story of Stuff) the woman talks about how producers use planned obsolescence. So when they make products they design them to break after a certain time period where even though the product broke they still have enough faith in the product to buy another one. Instead of the producers trying to make their product dependable and last a long time they are just adding on to our trash production. Our culture, identity, and economy is bound up with consuming and producing excessive amounts of waste.

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We use 3-4 pounds of garbage a day. Lol

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The production of plastic products put toxins into the air/environment.

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we use over a billion plastic bottles a year (tapped

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We spend 3-4 times as many hours shopping as our counterparts in europe. Austin

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"We [the U.S.] has 5% of the world's  population but we're consuming 30% of the world's resources and creating 30% of the world's waste."  (The Story Of Stuff)

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"99 percent of the stuff we run through this system is trashed within 6 months" (Story of Stuff)
-Cameron

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"Every person in America stands atop more than 35 tons of waste a year - or a staggering average lifetime legacy of 2,700 tons. No wonder America, with 5 percent of the world's population, accounts for nearly 25 percent of the world's waste." (Humes 10

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"In a year, Americans throw out a collective 389.5 million tons of rubbish - what the feds call "municipal solid waste," the stuff we personally throw away" (Garbology).

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"Americans make more trash than anyone else on the plant, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. (Humes 4)."
Kristen Sillars

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Americans use 80 million bottles of water daily. America has only a 20% recycling rate compared to only 50% for the rest of the world. 30 million of those 80 million bottles end up in landfills. A great deal of plastic and trash ends up in the oceans. The Central Pacific garbage gyre is twice the size of Texas. There are five more similar gyres spread across the world’s oceans.
(These are not quotes; they are paraphrases, so no " " but you still must (Tapped).)