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by ccalvert 2675 days ago
According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year:

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-on...

To my mind, that is a significant amount of waste, and definitely worth chasing.

* Durable Plastics: 72.9 lbs

* Nodurable Plastics: 28 lbs

* Plastic Bottles and Jars: 17.7

There is more, but this gives a sense of the statistics they quote on their site. These do not seem unreasonable to me, and they suggest that recycling plastics would save a refrigerator or two in weight per household per year, depending a bit on the size of the household.