i'm calling bullshit on this claim. that is to say that i don't believe i create much of any trash at all. extrapolating, it would be completely inaccurate to shoulder the trash-generation burden upon all of us equally, or suggest we are all equally culpable. the truth is more along the lines of that a very small percentage of people produce an absolutely astounding amount of trash. we should be focusing on the culprits and coercing and ostracizing them to behave more responsibly as individuals, not socializing the responsibility.
to demonstrate my claim, i am going to record how long it takes for me to fill a shopping bag full of trash. it's just your standard shopping bag. and it's just every day trash.
i believe that it will take me at least a year to fill this bag worth of trash. so, how much am i *actually* adding to the landfill this year? less than a shopping bag's worth of highly compressible plastic...
that is, almost nothing at all. if i can do it, you can do it too!