• America’s waste industry successfully manages more than 250 million tons of household and other municipal solid waste annually. Bates Trucking Company, Inc. successfully manages more than 200 tons of municipal and city waste annually in the Washington, Maryland, and Virginia region. (U.S. EPA, “Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2008” [EPA Facts and Figures]).• The average American discards four and a half pounds of garbage every day (EPA Facts and Figures).• If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times (Beck).
