🗑️ The average person makes 4–5 pounds of trash each day! That’s like throwing away a small watermelon every day!

♻️ Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours. So toss it in the right bin!

🍌 Banana peels can take up to 2 years to decompose if not composted. Yuck!

🌍 Over 2 billion tons of garbage are made around the world every year. That’s heavier than all the elephants in the world—times 10,000!

🐛 Worms love garbage! In compost bins, special worms help turn food scraps into healthy dirt.

🚛 Some garbage trucks run on trash! Certain trucks use gas made from rotting garbage to fuel themselves.

🏰 In Sweden, garbage is so well recycled that they sometimes import trash from other countries to keep their energy plants going!