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(ii) Calculate the total MSW generated in 2000 in the United States. Show your work.

Year Total MSW recycled (millions of metric tons) Percent of MSW recycled
1960 5 8%
1970 7 8%
1980 12 10%
1990 23 13%
2000 57 27%
2010 76 33%

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The answer is 1960.

The total waste to energy that was generated in the United States is 211.11 million metric tons.

How to calculate the MSW generated?

From the table, the percentage of the MSW generated is 27%, therefore 73% will be unrecycled.

Therefore, since 27% of recycled MSW is 57 metric tons. Then 100% of MSW will be:

= (57 × 100)/27

= 211.11 million metric tons

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