Where My Trash Comes From- Kayla

According to the EPA in 2012 Americans generated about 251 million tons of trash and recycled or composted about 87 million tons of that trash, that is only a 34.5% recycling rate. Individually Americans only recycled or composted 1.5 pounds of the 4.3 pounds of trash we create each day. In my house the most garbage we create is our kitchen garbage. We also create a lot of paper garbage, the newspaper, printouts for school and mail. My family does recycle everything we can and usually we only have one big garbage can to take out for the trash each week. So by adding this compost we will produce even less garbage and it will last for many years to come, it is a lasting solution. I have already seen a decrease in the amount of garbage that we create, we take out the little kitchen bin at least twice a day. I am excited to see how much garbage we will create now that we compost all that we can and hopefully what we produce will be cut in half.