"In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.3 percent recycling rate. On average, we recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of our individual waste generation of 4.40 pounds per person per day (Figure 1 and Figure 2)."
https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/html/

"In the United States, an average of 4.51 pounds of municipal solid waste were generated daily per person in 2017."
https://www.statista.com/statistics/186348/us-municipal-solid-waste-generated-per-person-since-1960/

"The average American makes 7 pounds of trash per day."
https://www.npr.org/2014/02/22/280750148/closing-americas-largest-landfill-without-taking-out-the-trash

"According to the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (an initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation), each American produces 16.5 pounds of trash per day, and there are about 314 million of us. That is 5,181,000,000 pounds of trash every day that need to be disposed of in some way."
https://owlcation.com/stem/15-of-the-Worlds-Largest-Landfills