The Most Wasteful States in America in 2024
As our world strives for a greener future in 2024, the need to minimize our environmental footprint is more pressing than ever before. With landfills growing and recyclables often mishandled, lowering our collective waste production is one of the most crucial priorities to address climate...
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Michigan's 10M residents dump 68.72 tons of waste per capita every year, for a staggering total of 685,000,000+ tons. Incredible, as the average nationwide per capita is 35.73 tons, roughly half.
We ourselves seldom produce more than 1/2 a garbage can of trash weekly, some weeks I don't bother taking it to the street for pickup, unlike our neighbors who have two overflowing cans at the curb every week, and sometimes more on the ground in bags. Thats's a lot of trash to be buried in landfills, which are filling up fast.
But no fear, Michigan drivers seem to have come up with a brilliant solution as to where to dump all that trash... simply throw it out the window while driving, easy-peasy. I have to admit we never thought of that simplistic solution, but those huge culverts on either side of our 122,040 miles of roads are just begging to be put to use for more than deer and raccoon cemeteries. We should be good to go for another 100 years.
I for one, am embarrassed at the amount of trash alongside our roads and highways in Michigan. No other state I travel through comes anywhere close to looking more like open pit landfill. For all the money Michigan spends to promote tourism you'd think that money could be put to better use.
Did I mention that Dems run this 'landfill'?