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 China produces 254 million tons of garage a year, or about a third of a kilogram per person per day — a third of the world’s annual trash and garbage output.

 Even though the average Chinese dumps only half the garbage that average American does that level will grow by about 4 percent a year until it reached around 50 percent more than what it is now.

 In old days garbage wasn’t much of a problem. Nie Yomgfend, a waste management expert at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, told AP, “Trash was never complicated before, because we didn’t have supermarkets we didn’t have fancy packaging and endless things to buy, Now suddenly, the government is panicking about the mountains of garbage piling up with no place to put it all. “

 Consumption of packaged foods rose 10.8 percent a year between 2000 and 2008 and is expected to rise 74 percent between 2008 and 2013 with the value of the packaged food reaching $195 billion.