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The average home owner's trash can cost $350.
Nearly all trash cans are dark, hard to see at night. Without reflective safety reflective stickers they pose a significant hazard to cars, motorcycles, bikers, joggers and any other type of passerby. Here are a few incredible statistics to keep in mind!
There are over 145,000,000 household units in the USA and each comes with at least one curb-side wheeled trash can for non-recyclable waste.
However, around half of all USA housing units have additional trash cans for non-recyclable waste. Which means we can add another 70 million garbage cans.
In a survey by Statista 60% of respondents stated that they have additional trash cans used for disposing of recyclable waste. Around the same percentage of US homes have access to curbside recycling services. That would be an additional 87,000,000 trash cans!
Using this data, we can estimate there to be a whopping 302,000,000 in-use curbside trash cans within the USA!
According to HOA-USA, there are nearly 351,000 HOAs in the country, representing 53% of owner-occupied dwellings1. That's around 75 million HOA managed houses in the USA!
According to the EPA, the average American will produce about 5.91 pounds of trash per day, with about 1.51 pounds being recycled1. Now that's a lot of trash... and a lot of hard to see trash cans!