Activist dubbed ‘trash man’ wears month’s worth of garbage to raise awareness

A man has been strolling around New York for two weeks weighed down with trash. Meet Rob Greenfield, an environmental activist asking America to wake up to its garbage problem.  In everyday life, Greenfield is committed to leading as environmentally sound a life as possible, but for one month he has decided to behave like the average American and generate 4.5 pounds of trash per day. So why is he doing this? “Because trash is out of sight, out of mind — most of us throw it in the garbage can and we never think about it again,” he said. Residents in New York, the largest city in the United States, produce 12,000 tons of waste every day, according to the GrowNYC sustainability organization.

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