Polypropylene is introduced and used for butter and margarine tubs and for drinking straws.
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The space shuttle is pulled out of service to replace a window that had been severely pitted by a chip of paint from space junk.
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During the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, athletes, trainers, coaches and spectators produce 6.5 million pounds of trash in 22 days, more than six pounds per person per day.
Fresh Kills, in Staten Island, New York, becomes the largest landfill in the world.
EPA issues "An Agenda for Action," calling for an integrated solid waste management approach to solving solid waste problems with waste problems, with waste prevention and recycling as its first two priorities.
"Our economy is such that we cannot 'afford' to take care of things: labor is expensive, time is expensive, money is expensive, but materials - - the stuff of creation - - are so cheap that we cannot afford to take care of them." - Wendell Berry
Municipal Solid Waste landfill criteria become effective for most landfills in the U.S.
Cities in California are required to recycle 50% of its waste.
