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Each year, coffee companies like Keurig and Nespresso produce almost 50 billion single-serve coffee pods, which are notoriously difficult to recycle. Keurig even says so on its labels.

Americans tossed 292.4 million tons of trash into landfills in 2018, or about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day.

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All of our discarded toys are adding up to a big problem.