On average each person produces 4.5 pounds of trash each day. There are over 3,000 active landfills in the US and about 10,000 inactive landfills in the US. If everyone in the the US spent an hour picking up trash then we would remove about 1 thousand pieces of trash from the earth. You can help remove trash by hosting a trash pick-up day in your neighborhood. You can put up flyers to encourage people to pick up trash and you can try to use less plastic and start to compost! (printable flyers below)