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A cross the country, as the weather improved and pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Americans ventured outside and noticed that their neighborhoods looked a little different. They saw mattresses piled outside cemeteries and disposable masks clogging the gutters.
Vacuum cleaners left in the woods, fast food wrappers blowing on the highway, piles of tires. Neighborhoods that had been relatively clean before the pandemic were now full of litter. In Portland, Ore. Norfolk, Va. There were 24 billion pieces of litter alongside highways, and 26 billion pieces of litter along waterways in , according to data compiled by the nonprofit litter prevention group Keep America Beautiful and shared exclusively with Time.
While this is actually less litter than a similar survey counted in , it does not include litter in places like public parks and neighborhoods, where pedestrians were most likely to exercise and socialize—think hikes, picnics and street parties—when the pandemic made it virtually impossible to take part in such activities indoors.
Keep America Beautiful has received a number of complaints about litter shifting from downtowns to neighborhoods, says David Scott, senior director of research. As people shift to socializing outside, other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Jordan are seeing a litter problem too. A few factors are driving the rise in trash.
In other cities like Baltimore, high rates of COVID among sanitation workers reduced the number available to pick up trash, so they stopped collecting bulk trash, suspended street sweeping, and temporarily stopped cleaning vacant lots. This comes at a time when more people are home because of the pandemic and creating more residential garbage than in the past.
Urban cholera and typhoid outbreaks exist only in history books. Given the immensity of the garbage problem in the Indian city, I was surprised to learn that the average Bangalorean throws out very little trash: about a pound of garbage per day, or the weight of a grapefruit. The average American generates more than four times that amount, according to the U. Environmental Protection Agency, or more than seven times that amount, according to a more rigorous methodology developed by Columbia University and the BioCycle trade journal.
These figures are only for municipal solid waste MSW —the waste we chuck from our homes, schools, and offices. It does not include agricultural waste, medical waste, construction debris, used tires, mining waste, and industrial waste. Taking all of this into account, each American is responsible for 35 tons of solid waste per year, or 2, tons over the course of his or her life. One reason for this is that we have vast open spaces where we can safely stash garbage out of sight, out of mind.
My home state of Virginia, for example, imports 3. In , the writer Elizabeth Royte attempted to trace a single bag of garbage from her New York City apartment to its final resting place in a landfill. As she documented in her book, Garbage Land , every major step in the process took place behind high walls and barbed-wire fences. After weeks of effort, she secured an invitation to visit a landfill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that accepts trash from New York City. But when she arrived, the landfill manager refused to show her around.
After calling some company higher-ups to gain access, she finally reached a vice president. He never got back to her. To me, the secrecy of waste managers—which was surely based on an aversion to accountability—was only feeding the culture of shame that had come to surround an ordinary fact of life: throwing things away…. I found that from the moment my trash left my house and entered the public domain … it became terra incognita, forbidden fruit, a mystery that I lacked the talent or credentials to solve.
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