{"id":1026493,"date":"2015-09-23T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=just-how-much-waste-are-americans-creating"},"modified":"2015-09-23T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:09:00","slug":"just-how-much-waste-are-americans-creating","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=just-how-much-waste-are-americans-creating","title":{"rendered":"Just how much waste are Americans creating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0new Yale-led study\u00a0reveals that we\u2019re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were here in the good ol\u2019 U.S. of A.Published on Sept. 21 in the Nature Climate Change journal and co-authored by Yale professor Julie Zimmerman and University of Florida professor Timothy G. Townsend,\u00a0this study\u00a0found that based on landfill measurements instead of government estimates, analysis of figures revealed that America tosses five pounds of trash per person per day.Let that soak in for a moment. Five pounds of garbage. Per day. Per person. 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