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© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Figure 15-2 Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Generation in the United States The amount of municipal solid waste generated per person in the U.S. has remained about the same since 1990, but our increasing population makes the total amount of garbage continue to increase. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) People in the United States generate 230 billion kilograms (254 million tons) of garbage— called municipal solid waste — each year. The amount generated per person has not changed much in recent years, but the total amount continues to increase as population increases. Most of this waste is sent to landfills. Landfills have gotten bigger and bigger, but their number has steadily declined, from 8000 in 1988 to 1654 in 2005.
