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What percentage of garbage can be burned as fuel?

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The percentage of garbage that can be burned as fuel is about 66%.

An average citizen in the United States trows almost five pounds of trash on a daily basis. Organic trash contains energy. That is why trash is burned so that energy can be used in different forms, for instance, to produce electricity. Companies that burn trash to create energy can produce electricity to serve 2.5 million people.

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The percentage of garbage that can be burned as fuel would be 66%. Not all garbage in the world can be combusted in order to be used as fuel. A small percentage of it is not favorable to be used as fuel. Hope this answers the question. Have a nice day.
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