Miran for General Electric New York. GE helps power Canada’s Sustainable Wine Production. Our attitudes to waste are shown in the words we use to describe it. Think about the words we use: refuse, garbage, trash, scrap, rubbish. These words make waste seem useless, dirty or unhealthy. Did you know that China accounts for one third of the world’s garbage output? Or that only 1 in 5 plastic bottles is recycled? Or that Americans throw away enough trash each year to cover the state of Texas twice over?