Question

Suppose you bring 100 pounds of groceries into your home each week. Please estimate how many pounds of each type of waste (plastic, paper, glass, metal, food, other) leaves your home from this (think about all the components of your groceries, not just food). Does this add up to 100 pounds? Why or why not?

Answer 1

The answer is below

Explanation:

We have a weekly amount of 100 pounds, you ask us if the waste would be 100 pounds in the same way.

We can say that more information is needed to estimate the waste that leaves the house. In the case that 100 pounds would come out, we consider that dry and wet waste have a distribution of 50-50%, 50 pounds of dry waste and 50 pounds of wet waste will leave the house.

If not, we wouldn't know how much could come out. since there are other factors that could influence it to be a greater or lesser quantity, in the case of a greater quantity of waste that is consumed outside the home and in the case of less, it is that the food is not consumed in its entirety.