Wentzville Trash & Recycling Guide - The City of Wentzville | Missouri

Trash Facts
In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times their adult
weight in garbage—that’s a legacy of 90,000 lbs. of trash for his or her
children.
Paper makes up 40% of the waste we throw away. Americans use 50
million tons of paper each year, consuming more than 850 million trees.
It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.
As a nation we use 500,000 trees every week for newspapers.
If the pilgrims had used aluminum cans at the first
Thanksgiving, the cans would still be around today.
Americans throw away enough aluminum every three
months to
rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44
million. That's the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill
every week.
Americans throw out enough iron and steel to supply all the nation’s
automakers on a continuous basis.
Americans throw away enough used oil each year to fill 120
supertankers.
Product packaging accounts for 30% of the weight and 50% of the
volume in our household waste.
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