Each person in America produces about four pounds of trash every day.

According to thinkearth.org, Americans produce enough Styrofoam cups every year to circle the Earth more than 400 times. And Styrofoam (polystyrene foam) is completely non-biodegradable.

It takes a banana peel three-four weeks to decompose. It takes a tin can 90 years. And it takes 1,000,000 years for a plastic jug to decay.

About one-third of an average dumpsite is made up of packaging materials.

According to the Environmental Defense Fund, every three months, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes!

It's estimated that Americans throw out 570 diapers are each second. That's over 49 million diapers a year.