Have you ever stopped to think about how much waste there would be? If everyone on earth produced an average of 4.40 pounds of waste per day, and the world's population was approximately 7.2 billion, the amount of waste going to landfills would be 31.7 billion pounds each day ("Advancing" ; "Census Bureau Projects US and the people of the world on New Year's Day"; "What if everyone stopped recycling?"). Therefore, in just one year, 11 trillion pounds of waste would end up in landfills around the world