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Trash and Recycling How Much Do We Waste? What we generally think of as trash is Municipal Solid Waste MSW . This waste is also sometimes called post-consumer waste. Although most visible, this is a very small amount of the total trash we create. Much more is created in the process of mining and manufacturing. For every ton of post-consumer waste, there is 20 tons of pre-consumer waste created along the way in the manufacturing process. Beyond the Wasteland, Guy Dauncey: /lit/beyondthewasteland.asp Ecological Rucksack The invisible trail of resource consumption and waste is sometimes