Disposal cleaners glog landfills

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Karen Klages, Knight Ridder News

(Not an exact reprint)

If someone were to load all of the disposable wipes purchsed in North America last year onto 18-wheelers the caravan would number 9,000 trucks and stretch for 68 miles and would be carrying 83,000 tons of wipes.

These are synthetic fibers, not biodegradable

Knight Rider News Service

US. produced 236.2 million tons of solid waste in 2003, not including hazardous waste.

4.5 lbs per person

European Union 3.2 lbs per person

disposabale consumer wipes were a 2.1 billion dollar business expected to grow by 2008 to 3.1 billion

Disposable toilet brushes that we've all seen advertized, 68 million dollars worth sold last year at food and drug and mass merchant stores, NOT including Wal-Mart