<P> As a nation, Americans generate more waste than any other nation in the world, officially with 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg) of municipal solid waste (MSW) per person per day, with another study estimating 7.1 pounds per capita per day . Fifty five percent of this waste is contributed as residential garbage, while the remaining forty five percent of waste in the U.S.'s' waste stream' comes from manufacturing, retailing, and commercial trade in the U.S. economy . Based on proprietary data released to the public, Nevada was named America's "Most Wasteful State" for the years 2005 - 2010; where each resident threw away over 14 pounds of non-recycled, unreused items, often ending up into landfills and incinerators per day, eight pounds over the national state daily throwaway average . "Wasteful" states Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon as well as Washington also dominated the list's 5 - year period . </P> <P> Waste may be defined differently in legislation and regulations of the federal government or individual states . Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations dealing with protection of the environment contains at least four different definitions of waste at sections 60.111 b, 61.341, 191.12 and 704.83 . Definitions may apply broadly to solid, liquid, and gaseous forms or may be specific to one or a subset identified by a threshold characteristic such as toxicity or radioactivity . Discarding, discharge, or disposal (as opposed to sales) is often a requirement for identification as waste, although stored or recycled material may be included within some definitions; and those definitions may reduce recycling options . Comparative quantification of waste may be difficult if the waste material is intentionally diluted in a handling or disposal process (such as diluting sanitary waste with clean water in the process of flushing a toilet .) Dilution may remove a material from a definition of waste by reducing concentrations below a defined toxicity or radioactivity threshold . </P> <P> Electronic waste have become an ever - growing problem in the United States . Each year, over 3.2 million tons of electronic waste is put in US landfills . A large portion of this electronic waste is computers, monitors, and televisions . Over 100 million computers, monitors, and televisions are disposed of yearly in the U.S. Although there is an enormous amount of electronic waste in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency found that in 2009 approximately only about 25% of all electronic waste is recycled in the United States . About 70% of metals that are found in the United States landfills come from electronic devices . The disposure of all this electronic waste has a detrimental effect on the environment, as well as the global economy . </P> <P> Electronic waste has become serious issue for the environmental stability in the United States . Over the years, the government has become increasingly more involved in this issue . As described in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery report of 2009, after the electronic products are purchased and used, they are separated into two groups . One group of electronics is collected for recycling, while the other is disposal . After this, the products that are disposal mainly are put into landfills, and the rest of electronics that were collected for recycling are either refurbished, reused, or used for material . Hans Tammemagi, the author of The Waste Crisis, talks about the detrimental effect the waste has on the environment . Nearly 20% of all waste in the United States is being incinerated, while the rest of it is being put into landfills . That leaves almost 80% of the waste consumed in the United States being placed into landfills . Out of this 80% of the waste, the majority of this waste is primarily electronic . </P>

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