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5,500
109,00
63,000
Slowly decreased
More than tripled
Stayed about the same
More than $100 billion
Approximately $900 million
Between $40 and $60 billion
50%
35%
75%
Plastic
Yard trimmings
Glass
11 billion pounds
133 billion pounds
84 billion pounds
1 billion
50 billion
25 billion
165 gallons of gasoline
320 gallons of gasoline
80 gallons of gasoline
Food waste
Textile waste
Glass waste
200-500 years
90-100 years
10-25 years
United States
Austria
France
10%
25%
30%
Batteries
Newspapers
Clothing
65-70
20-25
45-50
45%
3%
15%
1
7
4
1,000,000
4,000,000,000
12,000,000,000
Park benches, tires, swimming pools
Dollar bills, home insulation, baseballs
Livestock feed, industrial lubricants, newspaper
They are given away
They are sold on domestic and international markets
Some is given away to help the homeless and poor but most of it is sold
An approach for collecting litter along river banks
An engineering method for removing waste liquids from recycled materials
When recyclable materials are collected together and separated out later