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...world's biggest per capita garbage producer, the U.S. has the greatest potential for recycling. The good news: all over the country, local communities and states have passed laws requiring separation of various types of trash for community recycling. New York City, whose estimated 27,000 tons of municipal solid waste per day might seem an intractable problem, launched a program last year. The goal is to recycle 25% of the city's trash within five years...
...capita alcohol consumption in France is among the world's highest, and studies show that deaths from lung cancer among men have increased 366% since 1950. The government plans to introduce laws in parliament to increase the price of cigarettes 15% beginning in 1991 and to ban all tobacco advertising by 1993. Alcohol ads would be restricted to print media. Another study might then be necessary to find out whether the stereotypical Frenchman has been deterred by higher prices from inhaling cigarette smoke and vin rouge...
...almost every statistical index, West Virginia's economy is among the the worst in the nation. With a per capita income of $11,735 the state ranks 49th in the U.S., well behind the national average of $16,489. Almost 23 percent of West Virginians live in poverty--the third highest poverty rate...
...status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich by Caribbean standards. But it remains impoverished compared with the mainland, with half the per capita income of Mississippi...
...Boston is indeed the ice cream capital of the world," Haylon added. "There is a higher per-capita consumption of ice cream here than anywhere else in the world...