NBC: by the year 2100 mankind has reached "junk peak»

We are made up of many things. And we get rid of a lot too. Starting with coffee glasses and ending with cocktail sticks. Quickly discarded garbage quickly becomes a big problem. Let's pinch our noses and see while we still have time.

It's "Garbage country." We will study deeply what we throw away and what the consequences are.

We're masters at making garbage. Each of us leaves about four and a half pounds a day. Or about 1600 pounds a year. Weighs about as much the two-seater Smart four or a piano.

In fact, although we Americans make up only 5 percent of the world's population, we create almost a third of the world's garbage. The weight of the garbage we created during the year is equal to the weight of 1.2 million blue whales.

And all of us around the world are throwing away more than ever. Ten times more than a century ago. And in the next seven years, this figure will double. So how did we get to this?

On average, most of what we buy is thrown away in just six months. Some products "live" no more than six seconds. Remember turntables-antistress? Today their almost forgotten, but two months they were on peak of popularity. As a result, it is estimated that 50 million pieces were sold — and along the way left tons of garbage.

Traditional spinner sizes are 3.6 inches by 3.5 inches. The thickness of the plastic is half an inch. Weight — 2.4 oz. The standard packaging is a small cardboard box with a molded plastic insert, sealed with about an inch of plastic tape. They are imported in bulk in cardboard boxes of large dimensions.

Let's say each distributor orders them in boxes weighing 15 pounds, 100 pieces each. So, the 50 million spinners sold account for 7.5 million pounds of landfill waste — and that's just the toys themselves; 0.6 million pounds of small cardboard boxes; 0.3 million pounds of plastic inserts; 57.5 million pounds of transport cardboard boxes and 4.1 feet of plastic tape. And even more indirect damage — waste generated in the course of marketing, transportation and packaging.

And that's without taking into account the millions of unsold copies that are probably dusting on warehouse shelves. Trinkets that do not mind throwing away, join other plastic misunderstandings of our time. All this today is a little less than half of our garbage.

Just think of all the packaging materials of your last order on Amazon or your last postage. All these one-time things quickly accumulate, creating problems in the future. By about 2100 we will reach the garbage peak: the weight of the garbage carried out every day will be equal to the weight of 73 thousand blue whales. According to experts, we will stay at this mark. But either way, it's a horribly littered future.

In the second episode, we dig the landfill deeper. And yet — think about whether to throw away that shovel from a discount store, and generally anything…