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BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

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Talking Trash: How You Can Lessen Your Impact on the Garbage Problem

May 4, 2017

In the course of a year, trash produced by the United States is enough to reach to the moon and back 25 times—that’s around 6.9 billion feet of garbage.