Earth Day — what is it and why should you care? Read, reuse, recycle, repeat. Did you know that 2020 tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record since record-keeping began in 1880? Or that 80 percent of all plastic waste ever created by humans is still in the environment? Or that, in 2018, the total generation of municipal solid waste in the USA was about 4.9 pounds per person per day? These statistics ...