There is no denying that the U.S. has a trash problem. Throughout their life, the average citizen will discard 600 times their weight in garbage. Think about that. That’s an entire auditorium full of waste! Not only is this horrible for the environment, trash removal is expensive. It costs the public nearly $50 per a ton to ship all this waste off to the landfill, and nearly $12 billion a year (a lot of it tax dollars), is spent tending to litter. Below are a few ways to recycle, up-cycle, and re-use your trash so that you can start becoming…