| The numbers are increasing. The United Nations | | | | through waste management. |
| Development Programme estimates that there are | | | | Home waste management is not just about less |
| five million people who die each year because of | | | | trash, it is about protecting and saving the |
| diseases related to inappropriate waste disposal. It is | | | | environment. You could start by monitoring what you |
| the developed countries who are generating more | | | | actually throw and how much waste is hauled from |
| wastes. About .75 tons of trash is being produced | | | | your home. Monitoring what you dispose would help |
| annually by an individual in the United States, that is | | | | you deal with them using other methods. Waste |
| according to the United States Environmental | | | | management could be summed in three important |
| Protection Agency or US EPA. It can be reduced | | | | words: reduce, reuse, recycle. |