From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!bj Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: TRASH Article-I.D.: yale-com.978 Posted: Fri Feb 25 18:42:07 1983 Received: Sat Feb 26 04:03:38 1983 References: houxv.119 hou5e.251 The original NYT article said that the sanitation department figured that the average person produced n.n pounds of trash per day. They accounted for the differences between the rich and the poor by the fact that poor families tend to have more people in a bedroom and so a 420 bedroom building would hold more people if they were poor. B.J. decvax!yale-comix!herbison-bj