On: Dropped Cheetos Could Have Triggered Ecosystem Chaos in Largest US Cave Chamber

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The U.S. generates ~300 million tons of municipal solid waste every year.[1] 1/4 of that is generated in national parks? Not a believable figure.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...

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They have to include e.g. dirty earth from oil spill cleanups or something in the stats.

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Perhaps the NPS is exempt from those statistics as a federal agency – I imagine the EPA's oversight is different there (as it is for usual local and state agencies, which those stats seem to cover.)