How much snow is shoveled or plowed in the U.S. in a typical winter?
How much food is wasted at school cafeterias every year in the U.S.?
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For more Fermi questions and answers, see Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today’s Problems on the Back of a Napkin, by Lawrence Weinstein (Princeton University Press, 2012).
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