I wonder about that. Is excretion considered a form of waste?
My usage of water shouldn't exceed 400 kgs per month. That includes drinking, bathing, flushing, cleaning, cooking and washing hands (I even have a weird habit of doing that excessively). You can't get that much wasted water from that usage.
Actually, I noticed the word average just now. I am packing my bags.
> You can't get that much wasted water from that usage.
You also need to factor in the wastewater to produce all of the other products you consume. That produce you bought at the store and rinsed yourself was also likely washed several times along the supply chain before it got to you. That one bottle of beer you drank? The bottle has been washed several times, inside and out, along with the vat the beer was brewed in, every single pipe and tool that was used to process or shunt it, etc.
If I did that with everything, not just water. It would be way more waste than 1 tonne.
What about frequently checking replies page out of FOMA?
What about the content I watch or read? The anime I watched last took lot to produce and there is no doubt, people wasted shit ton of paper along with other things are?
All those things you mentioned are part of residential water usage, which is just 5% of society's freshwater usage. Industry (the products you buy) uses a similar amount alone. Dwarfing residential and industry is agriculture (42%, the food you buy) and energy generation (34%, the electrical power).
That would be silly/stupid. But then again, that seems to be the standard for environmental reporting these days. The most catastrophic-sounding headline gets the most clicks.
The article says that a large portion of material use is in construction, so if you've moved into a newly-built home that will have used quite a bit of material to build.
13 tons is also a mean - don't read too much into it. Some people will have very lavish lifestyles, creating tons of waste, and others will have more spartan lifestyles, creating much less waste.
> so if you've moved into a newly-built home that will have used quite a bit of material to build
I didn't mention the dumpster outside of my house while it was built. I don't know what percentage of materials was wasted, but I doubt it's a multiple.
I'd like to see my ~1 ton of waste, per month, please.
Even as a wasteful American, this number is so staggering that I'd like to understand more about what all that waste is. Mining tailings? Coal ash?
Certainly, my trashcan that I bring to the curb every week only has a tiny amount of my waste footprint.