Depends. On many things.

There's extreme food waste in North America. We have exceptionally inefficient systems on many levels. Processing factories should be reclaiming the heat they use to generate power and/or heat homes. There's no food reclamation projects. In Oakland we built a veggie oil to biodiesel station in our warehouse. The restaurants couldn't give us their old oil fast enough. We filled many vehicles and in turn they did a weekly circuit of the restaurants. Every person did it a few times a year. And that's just off the top of my head regarding food and energy. There should be no one hungry - yet the system does not care about trickling down fairly nor efficiently nor at all.

Clothing is ridiculously wasteful on a crazy scale. That's a whole other ball of confusion. So much just ends up going to Africa - including the high-end stuff.

Ultimately we need to build an anti-corporate and anti-consumerist culture and bring manufacturing home again, DIY and hand craft things, and develop our own non-exploitable cultures.