How much trash does your family manufacture in a year? 
 
Here’s a telling project on behalf of the math whiz in your home.  Conduct a trash audit.
 
What kind of things do you throw away? How much can be reduced by recycling or composting? To answer these questions, perform a trash audit. 
·         Estimate the total trash you produce in per annum by estimating the volume of each bag. (Assume the bag is a sphere, so volume = 4.19 x radius3.) 
·         Multiply the weight or volume by 52 weeks. 
·         Observe what you are throwing away. One way to do this is to create separate bags on behalf of each category of trash—such as glass, newspaper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, white bond paper, glossy paper/magazines, fruit/vegetable food waste, meat/dairy food waste, non-food waste as well as yard waste. 
·         Estimate the volume of each individual category bag (volume = 4.19 x radius3). 
·         Determine the percentage of total trash on behalf of each category: 
·         Divide the weight or volume of each category’s trash bag by the weight or volume of the combined trash. 
·         Multiply each quotient by 100. 
 

 
Look at the categories as well as determine what percentage of your trash output you can reduce by recycling or composting. 


Recycle such items as glass, newspaper, glossy paper, aluminum cans, aluminum foil as well as plastic bottles.(more on this on page______).


Compost newspaper, yard waste as well as an estimated all kitchen wastes (although meat/dairy products take special composting). 


 
IMPORTANT:  See how much of your garbage is made up of packaging, some of which may be excess packaging. You can reduce this trash category by buying products with minimal packaging, such as bagged cereal instead of boxed cereal. 
If you can reduce your trash output by recycling as well as composting, you shall save landfill space as well as reduce your town’s waste expenses, which shall ultimately give rise to better uses on behalf of your tax dollars.