According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/tr

According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-one-person-produces-year/ https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-on... To my mind, that is a significant amount of waste, and definitely worth chasing. * Durable Plastics: 72.9 lbs * Nodurable Plastics: 28 lbs * Plastic Bottles and Jars: 17.7 There is more, but this gives a sense of the statistics they quote on their site. These do not seem unreasonable to me, and they suggest that recycling plastics would save a refrigerator or two in weight per household per year, depending a bit on the size of the household.