I finished watching “The Human Footprint” on the National Geographic channel the other day. It was a fascinating program. The show follows a young American couple from birth to death and provides waste stats on how much stuff they use and discard during their lives and, sometimes, how many natural resources were required to produce it.

I knew that the waste stats would be bad, but I had no idea how bad they would actually be. Read more on Waste Stats for the Average American…