U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by edoceo on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:56PM (#28030470)

Using standard units:

- 1589g of trash per day!

- 4767 cm3 to store it (3cm3/gram)

- 130 m3 per lifetime (75yr)

- 300,000,000 lifetimes.

- 78 km3 storage allocated

- 39 km3 required

~~We're gonna need a bigger boat.~~

Neat!

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by yesenadam on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:33PM (#28030814)

> - 39,000,000,000 km3 required

I think something went very wrong there!

4767 x 75 x 365 = I get 130,500,000 cm³/person/lifetime. You got 130,000,000,000,000,000.

There are 10¹⁵ cubic centimetres in a cubic kilometre, not 10⁶. I think all your numbers are for m³, not km³, a factor of a billion out, so your final figure should be 39 km³.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by edoceo on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:00PM (#28031027)

Thanks, I've edited (working from mobile, some copy paste issues with long numbers). I think it's right now? (How do you get the <sup>3</sup>?)

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by loa_in_ on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:12PM (#28031142)

should be 39km2 not km3

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