# An Inside Look at Waste, Consumption, and Recycling Trends in America

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/12/an-inside-look-at-waste-consumption-and-recycling-trends-in-america/
- Published: 2019-12-16T21:28:41-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

As a junk hauling company, Fast Haul loads and unloads tons and tons (literally)
of consumer waste every month. As a green-conscious company, they do strive to do
recycling as much of the materials that we collect as possible.

Finally and as well, ecoATM [recycles](https://www2.ecoatm.com/) cellphones, tablets,
and devices nationwide. So we thought it would be interesting to take a look at 
the amount of [trash](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/11/marines-test-new-energy-efficient-weapon-in-the-war-on-trash/)
produced. Also, the percentage of trash recycled. Finally and the impact of recycling
in [America](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/05/recycling-importance-in-uk/) since
the 1960′s.

Because the good news is that we have come a long, long way.  We now are recycling
over 34% of our waste as a nation. The bad news is, we continue to produce an increasing
amount of waste at an alarming rate.

As stated [previously](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/05/recycling-importance-in-uk/):

It’s now more important than ever to make sure you are recycling as much as possible.
I mean especially in a home renovation and wherever possible. The average UK household
produced more than a ton of waste every year. If you combine this with the total
current amount of households in the UK, this equates to around 31 MILLION tons of
waste. Let’s put it another way: produced every year.

With so much waste and the rubbish being produced, it can be hard for households
to know exactly what to do with it all. Many people in their busy lives don’t remember
to recycle their [waste](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/04/eco-friendly-wedding-ideas-reduce-your-wedding-waste/)
properly, meaning there are lots of missed recycling opportunities and excess waste
that is put into landfills or burned or even ended up in our oceans and rivers.

#### 󠀁[⌊Fast Haul Wasted in America Infographic about consumer waste and recycling⌉⌊Fast Haul Wasted in America Infographic about consumer waste and recycling⌉󠀁[

Courtesy of: [Fast Haul](https://www.fasthaul.com)

In conclusion, See more at: [http://www.ecoatm.com](https://www2.ecoatm.com/)

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