Nature World: Did you know that an average person generates 4.3 pounds of waste per day? According to Duke University's Center for Sustainability and Commerce, approximately 55 percent of 220 million tons of waste generated each year in the United States ends up in one of the over 3,500 landfills.
"Using 'business-as-usual' projections, we predict that, by 2100, solid-waste generation rates will exceed 11 million tonnes per day - more than three times today's rate. With lower populations, denser, more resource-efficient...