• The average American discards 4.43 pounds of garbage every day.

• If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times.

• Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in America is packaging.

• Americans throw away 570 diapers per second. That's 49 million diapers per day.

• Seventy-six percent of Americans consider themselves environmentalists.

• If more people became environmental shoppers, the amount of trash could be reduced by as much as 45 percent.

Richard Montgomery High School Recycled Art Winners:

Chaos-Elephant Alice Shi and William Lu

Fish are what they eat Christine Robbie

Skull Joseph Bozzonetti

Honorable Mentions:

Trapped Truly Nguyen

Predator to Prey Zoe Goldenberg and Amy Chen

Pollution Hurts Emily Yang and Helen Yang

Flower Base Suyen Rivera

Happiness Kate Payson

Rare Beauty Susanqi Jiang And Ellin Hu

Jessica LiMorgan CarterJulia DiJesse DainesYuheng QinDonnie WeissLily XuDiana Gonzalez-RamirezSavannah Du

Green Rockets!!!

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