How much does eco-friendly recycling impact the U.S. landfills? In 2010, the United States added about 250 million tons of trash to landfills. The unrecycled trash added to these landfills consisted of items people use and then throw away, such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps and papers. In the same year, the United States recovered almost 65 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste by recycling. What we were able to recycle comprises almost 25% of what actually ended up in a landfill. This shows that the recycling effort in this country makes a considerable impact to our landfills but much more could be done.
The waste added to our landfills in 2010 consisted of 29% Paper and paperboard, yard trimmings and food scraps accounted for another 27%, plastics 12%, metals 9%, rubber, leather and textiles 8%, wood was approximately 6.4% and glass 5%. Other miscellaneous wastes made up approximately 3.4%. There are still many things that end up in our landfills that could be recycled, such as, paper, wood, and glass.
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