Waste Fact Guides

Understand how much trash businesses and households create and the environmental impact it has with our expert waste fact guides. These cover statistics and information about common waste materials and industries. Gain valuable and detailed insight into the true scale of trash the world produces and why reducing waste is so important.

We create around 300 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the USA every year. Then there’s all the food, paper, glass, plastic, metal, clothes, and other materials people and businesses throw away. That’s just in the US too, across the planet it’s closer to two billion tons of MSW annually.

Each guide includes such top level waste stats about the specific material or industry. This highlights where we often create waste and key focus areas to reduce it. Learn more about the types and amounts of different trash that businesses and households in the USA and around the world produce in each of our expert waste fact guides.