What If We Stopped Recycling?

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On average, you produce just over 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) of waste each day. That may not sound like a whole lot, but multiply it by every person on Earth, and suddenly you’ve got 14.8 billion kgs (32 billion lbs) of waste being produced every 24 hours. Not just things that go in the garbage, but recycling as well.

But what would happen if we suddenly stopped recycling? Would the world be quickly flooded with garbage? Would we fire it into space?

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