How much garbage are Americans responsible for each day? And how much are we actually recycling?

On average every American adult wastes 90,000lbs of rubbish in their lifetime, there is approximately 225 million adults in America. So 225,000,000 x 90,000 will give you a result of 2,025,000,000,000. Divide the result by 27,010 and you get 74,972,232.

Using the final number I'd say America is responsible for nearly 75 million pounds of rubbish a day (this isn't exact fact, it's a mathematical average).

To put this question in perspective; Americans, that is the people, are making very little waste. There have been laws in place for decades preventing individuals from originating waste. City houses must, by law, be connected to the state controlled waste system. Country houses have individual corporate approved septic waste control systems. Many cities restrict or prohibit the slaughter of livestock for food within the city limits by the people that live there. On government controlled land a person just can't cut down a tree if they want it's illegal. If you don't think so go to city hall and start cutting down the trees.
Burning trash is usually not allowed within cities and can often require permits outside the corporate city limit.
Riding a horse or wagon down the road is illegal in many cities and areas, not to mention quite dangerous.
And in America it is rare for any individual to originate anything they have and use each day.
In other words; minus feces and urine the American people do not originate any liquid waste, solid waste, toxic waste, hazardous waste, nuclear waste or air pollution.
Almost all Americans are completely dependent on the products corporations build. No American is fully independent of corporate dependency, none!
Corporations make all the waste.
Things Corporations make.
1) Corps make almost all the food by using corporate chemicals put in the ground to stimulate growth. Chemicals sprayed on the plants to kill pests and to kill unwanted plant growth. These chemicals themselves are toxic waste.
The food being drenched in these corporate chemicals should be considered toxic waste.
As for livestock, dairy and poultry they are injected, fed, immersed, and treated with corporate chemicals from birth to slaughter. They should also be considered a toxic waste.
Go in your cupboards and read the labels a percentage of most packaged foods, they contain corporate chemicals. These chemicals are toxic waste. You’d be hard-pressed to make the argument that something that can prohibit a food from decomposing or being eaten by insects isn’t dangerous.

2) Corps make all the smog generating motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, trains, boats and planes. Even the non-smog generating ones like bicycles, tricycles, skateboards and pogo-sticks come from corporate factories. So be aware; that when you drive one of these items it is corporations like Toyota that is originating that pollution not the individual. Never blame the individual for the crimes of the corporation.

3) Corps make all the nuclear powerplants and nuclear weapons.
Ask the folks at Chernobyl and other types of these plants if just the technology should not be considered hazardous waste and fully prevented.

4) Corps make all the plastic; everything from injected molded washers, children's toys, bottles, tables, cases, and milk jugs. Individuals make no plastics.

5) Corps cut all the trees, own all the paper mills and make all the paper. Individuals make none.

6) Corps even make all the barbiturates, sedatives, amphetamines and all the legal drugs. Not usually considered a toxic waste, but it is difficult to pretend these potentially deadly substances eaten, passed, and poured out by the truckloads by Americans everyday aren't toxic waste.
Individuals originate none of these drugs.

The list is virtually endless. Corps make it all! Nearly every bit of waste comes from corporations.

It is rare for corporations to be fined or shutdown for polluting. There are cases but not many. Instead it is much easier to point the finger at the individual and say they are to blame.
Put out a propaganda campaign telling individuals they are the evil ones and they can fix it (even though they don’t originate any of the waste). Tell them silly things like pick paper or plastic, to think green or act locally think globally, to compost and other trash like that. Back it up with a few news casts, some movies, articles, songs, and the people will do it without even realizing they’ve been duped.

It's very often the same scenario, the corporations generate the waste the individual must accept it and then passes it on. A blind eye is turned to the corporations and the individual is identified as the waste generator. To someone this insanity must make a sort of nonsense like the corporations are generating a revenue stream but the individual isn't; so the corporation is good and the individual must be doing something wrong. Sure it sounds good if you worship and love money, but most people prefer to love their family, friends and God not money.

But to add insult to injury to the individual, recycling enters the scenario. Recycling is a way to promote the current corporate practices of waste and abuse by turning the unprofitable individual output into a revenue stream. Now even home waste has a determined and projected monetary value. Its promoted as a great thing, but then aren’t all revenue streams. With recycling in the mix corporations don’t have to retool green until their plant/machinery/depreciable assets have reached end-of-life. And then it’s optional because they are not producing waste anymore, they are generating the raw materials of the recycling industry. If they retool too green they would be hurting that industries revenue stream.
Recycling is nothing more than the same old garbage in a different plastic wrapper.
Corporations are the criminals of the pollution scam, not the individuals.