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Facts
America produces over 250,000 tons of garbage annually with 55% or 138,000 tons ending up in a landfill. This averages to 4.6 pounds per person each and every day and a little over 2.5 pounds of it ends up in a landfill. As our recycling levels out, the number of landfills is decreasing. This causes the costs of disposing garbage to increase as the waste is carted further away from its source.
Methane has a Global Warming Potential rating 25 times higher than Carbon Dioxide according to the UN IPCC. The EPA reports that the largest producer of Methane is landfills and the sixth largest is waste treatment plants.
The price of oil has increased by 211% from January 2007 to March 2008. New England gets over 60% of its electricity from some petroleum product.
