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Technology’s Cornucopia

April 2023
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In one year the United States of America produces:

142 million tons of smoke

7 million scrapped cars

20 million tons of waste paper

48 billion discarded cans

26 billion discarded bottles and jars

3 billion tons of waste rock and mill tailings

“What we have saved and what we will save in the next few years will be all that will remain to be passed on to future generations. There will never be another chance.”— The Nature Conservancy

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