Karl Schmieder

“60% of us today choose to live in cities, because they're beautiful places, and that number is going to rise to 70% by 2050. Two billion more people will be moving into urban areas.”

“We generate about 50 bags of garbage a week.”

“Scaling that to the city level, he estimated New York City's total at around 22,000 tons of garbage a day.”

“New York City spends $2 billion a year to make that problem go away.”

“And in the U.S., we spend $350 billion a year to make that go away.”

“that's 150 Statue-of-Liberties of garbage every single day.”