walker on Nostr: Fun fact: New York City produces 28 BILLION pounds of trash every year. That’s 12.7 ...

Fun fact: New York City produces 28 BILLION pounds of trash every year.

That’s 12.7 BILLION kilograms of trash for you non-Americans.

For comparison, the Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds.

So NYC produces the equivalent of 62,222 Statues of Liberty in TRASH per year.

quoting note1cyh…xv2s

1971: I bet we’ll have flying cars in the future.

2024: New York discovers garbage cans.