Splendor in the Trash Forget about Home Depot, eco-savvy home decorators are heading to the junkyard.
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The rest of us could do with a pinch of Schiavo's resolve. Every day the typical American produces 5.2 pounds of garbage. Product packaging is the number one component in the nation's waste stream, weighing in at nearly 57 million tons per year. That's 32 percent of all American trash. It's not surprising, then, that environmentalists are fighting the wrapping racket.