The amount of material a garbage truck holds, depends on the size of the truck. A typical garbage truck, however, holds about nine tons of garbage.Ê
25 tons
Depends how compact-able the garbage is.
millions and millions the small company i work for we average 30 tons a week and we only pick up about 1400 residential costumers
11 billion
87,000 tons, according to the NY Times: See article: "The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting"
Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year.
700,000,000,000,000,000,002 tons!
460,580 TONS per year
Germany produces approximately 48.84 tons of garbage per year.
Prince George's County in Maryland produces approximately 1,225 tons of garbage per day.
700 tons of trash. That is equivalent to 1400000 pounds!