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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.
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2 .I probably throw away my own weight in garbage each month.
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3 .That's the average for an American city dweller.
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4 .Urbanites like me create roughly twice as much trash as our rural residents.
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5 .We city folk the world over produce 3 million metric tons of garbage each day.
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6 .And in the next decade or so, the amount of garbage worldwide could double.
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7 .That's partly because more and more of us are living in cities, and there are more and more of us around.
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8 .In order not to live amidst ever higher landfills like in WALL-E, people will have to waste less.
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9 .This can be done:
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10 .The average Japanese urbanite makes just a third the trash produced by the average American, like yours truly.
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11 .We'll all have to turn Japanese if the world is to reach so-called "peak waste" before 2100.
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12 .Peak waste refers to some highest ever amount of garbage produced daily, which then, it's hoped, begins to fall.
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13 .On current pace, garbage production could rise beyond 11 million metric tons per day by the end of this century.
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14 .If we haven't peaked by then, we could be living in garbage.
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15 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.
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