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Municipal solid waste produced in tons

Municipal solid waste produced in tons

This statistic is collected by the Environmental Protection Agency to measure how waste is produced and managed. Note that part of the rise in municipal solid waste from 2017 to 2018 was due to a methodology change that more fully accounted for food waste.

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