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What happened to the amount of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States over the 50 years from 1960 to 2011?
 
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What makes up most industrial solid waste?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Per capita MSW increased by about 50 percent and the total amount almost tripled

Answer to Question 2

Industrial solid waste consists primarily of spoilage from mining, logging, and other industrial processes that is not
disposed of in landfills. Mining is the largest producer of industrial solid waste



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Reply #2 on: Jul 21, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 21, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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