According to Earth911, "Germany leads the European nations in recycling, with around 70 percent of the waste the country generates successfully recovered and reused each year. To put that figure into perspective, consider this: In 2007, the U.S. was able to recover only about 33 percent of the waste generated that year."
Take into consideration that there are many more people in the US producing trash than there are in Germany, that's A LOT of unrecycled trash year after year ...
To find out more about how they manage to reach those percentages in Germany, go here:
http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/13/trash-planet-germany/
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