Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
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Related We average 3,500 pounds of trash per boat on a single outing. Prior to Hurricane Wilma, we pulled in... GREGORY REYNOLDS Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile. ED RENDELL I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Ea... DON BROWNLEE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it'... BILL GATES When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex... NICOLE WILLIAMS There is some uncertainty in the total influx of meteoric matter, but it is probably on the order of... ANDREW KLEKOCIUK Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where h... DENIS JOHNSON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY What, shall one of us,
That struck for the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting r... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr... MASANOBU FUKUOKA The trash that I am throwing out of my car window is landing somewhere that is not a trash bin. SALMAN KASBATI We're on the computer e-mailing each other about trades and stuff. There's a lot of trash talking. PAUL LO DUCA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together.... MARK TWAIN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are confident that our continued focus on improving key metrics such as the amount of transaction... HAMED SHAHBAZI The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Per capita measures of income are always a little bit distorted when you talk about places like Utah... JEFF THREDGOLD A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback) "I know t... AMAZON REVIEWER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. Then your focus direct... THE TRUTH We're still on track with our production (guidance) of 3.8 million to 4 million barrels of oil equiv... MALCOLM BRINDED If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li... APURVA GAGLANI We've never collected a rental tax before, so there is only speculation on the amount of revenue it ... DON GREEN I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties... JONATHAN CARROLL It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties... JONATHAN CARROLL Trust In Every Words, And You Will Believe In Your Works. EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM We got a lot of calls about the trash. But our hauling companies got even more calls. BILL NEWMAN We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first th... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on... JOHN F. KENNEDY Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn't help myself—I sm... ALLY CARTER Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Having this also made the students aware of our own responsibilities of throwing trash out of their ... LORRY GREEN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ... JOHN PIPER Now what is the will of God? That's the big question. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect... CHUCK D The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of ... CARLO RATTI Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Austral... MICHAEL SMITH The merged entity will take on performances of both groups, so we will be able to do one or two more... JEFF SHUE Alzheimer's patients progress from a few hours of care a day to 24/7, costing upwards of a hundred t... DEBRA SEEFELD But we were at the funeral. We scattered a trash bag full of his ashes! WILL & GRACE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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