For starters, households are growing faster than the population. Smaller households form through divorce, people living longer, and other social factors that tend to break up families. So where once there was one family, now there are multiple households. Each of these new homes still needs food, shelter, clothing, etc. Each creates garbage.
More trash is created when people form multiple households than when they used to live together.
Woody Allen awoke hungry in the 21st Century and was given health food a thick steak and hot fudge sundae. Environmental knowledge changes, too. We want to help keep you informed. Degradation in landfills. It turns out that almost nothing biodegrades once buried.