I'm taking a macroeconomics course right now. It's H-A-R-D. I'm studying a chapter on Negative Externalities. I was astonished to learn some statistics about pollution and recycling. Here it goes:
- Pesticide residues on food pose more health problems than do toxic waste dumps or air pollution.
- Smog: 40% of smog comes from automobiles; 40% comes from consumer products; 15% comes from manufacturing.
- Air pollution on average is now greater indoors than outdoors
- Nearly all US cities have modern sewage control systems...
- A notable exception is NYC, which teams up with NJ to dump their raw sewage 100 miles out to sea
- 50% of US households curbside recycle
- 15% of all US garbage gets recycled; 15% gets incinerated; 70% goes to the landfill
- Japan recycles 40% of their garbage; 33% gets incinerated; 27% goes to the landfill
- Germany recycles 70% of all paper garbage
- The US recycles 42% of all paper garbage and ranks 16th globally in this measure.
- In the US, 2 out of 3 aluminum cans get recycled which is 8 lbs per person
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