BackLandfills Total waste (Municipal waste) is 1 kg/day/person in Sweden. In US 2 kg waste pr person pr day
Even though more waste is being recycled or composted - 27 % in 1998 in USA, the total amount of waste is still increasing every year - 2.5 times more than in 1960. In the US it is now at 2 kg waste pr person pr day. In Sweden the figure is about 1 kg.
We need to accelerate recycling, of every possible material.
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 Clothes as waste
In the US an average of 30 kg of clothes pr person is dumped as waste every year.
In Sweden it is 9 kg/person |
 Landfills
In the developed world very little area is available for new landfills, and the old ones are filling up. At the East Coast of USA they will only last 5 years. In the Midwest of USA 10 years. |
 Carbon emissions
We can triple the lifetime of clothes if they are reused. This means a storage of carbon in stead of creating greenhouse gasses when they rot or burn at the landfills. |
 Community Carbon Collectors in Kenya
Chardust has teamed up with an NGO that has an existing garbage collection program to encourage Kibera slum dwellers in Kenya to act as “carbon collectors”, salvaging charcoal dust to sell to Chardust for processing into briquettes. |
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