Does anyone know how much space the trash we generate daily would cover?

Question

Tall/wide

Answer 1

Not sure about size but I do know each person creates approx 25 pounds of trash per week.

Answer 2

If we pile it to an infinite thickness, it would cover zero space. If we pile it to  almost zero thickness, it will cover the whole world.

We can not do either.

If we dropped it into the deepest trenches of the oceans, and it would stay there, we would barely fill one of them per century.

If we insist on each city keeping its trash inside of the city, we will cut down our trash to fit our comfort with it.

Answer 3

No idea, but did you know there is also alot of trash in space?

Answer 4

Did no one else have any science classes in High School.  Everything on the earth remains here, it just changes.  There is nothing in a lab that cannot be found in nature, nor is there nothing that will not return to nature.  The trash we create today becomes the food we eat tomorrow.  Who cares how much of it we make, it was already here, and will always be here.

Answer 5

It is very wasteful not to recycle a lot of trash. It is amazing what is now being made in third world countries from stuff we used to throw away or tried to bury in landfill. Daily in our household we throw out about a 2 gallon bucketful of household waste and about twice that size in recyclables. There are two people contributing to that lot.