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- The average human generates 4.38 lbs of trash every day.
And so I think it'd be interesting
to see if that actually happens,
and if that's actually how much
I'm going to have to carry around for a week.
I did this by accident today,
I was gonna get a mug of hot chocolate,
and I was like oh, I'll put it in one of these cups
because it's easier to carry around,
and now I have to throw this away.
I feel like it's a lot of different kinds of paper.
Like, tissues and toilet paper
and paper towels and stuff like that,
like I feel like that's most of the volume so far.
Right now we have it where it's kind of just
filling the whole bottom of the bag.
- Could you just leave it outside?
- Can you really smell it?
I got this package.
So I'm gonna have to open this,
but then it's all gonna become part of my trash.
Yeah, this is a lot of needless packaging.
This one's leaking now.
I dunno, I just picked it up and there's this huge puddle
of something, some kind of liquid,
it really could be anything.
This is a cool experiment, but it's getting
not so cool anymore.
I'm just kind of counting down the time
until I don't have to carry it around anymore.
So I'm gonna go take this to my car.
This is what it looks like, it's not even a week,
and I have 15 lbs.
I dunno, it's just crazy.
Monitor what you're throwing away.