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Please provide short answers to the following questions:

1. Please discuss the waste generation and recycling trends in the US. Is waste generation and or recycling on the rise? Which materials does the US recycle most often? Which materials does the US recycle the least?

2. Please discuss the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. What was the major focus of this legislation? What are some of the benefits for the environment associated with this law?

3. How is paper recycled? What are the major steps?

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Waste Generation and Management

Question#1

Generally speaking, the rates of waste generation is much higher than that of waste recycling in the United States. According to the research that was conducted in 2015, the results indicated that roughly 262 million tons of solid waste materials are produced annually. Out of this figure, it is only about 26%, which is efficiently recycled; this is a clear indication that the recycling rate in the US is relatively low compared to the waste generation rate (Kofoworola and Gheewala  732)From the study conducted in 2015, it is apparent that the generation trend is increasing daily, even though the recycling rate is rising, it is doing so at a decreasing rate.

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