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Current international trade flows of waste follow a pattern of waste being produced in the Global North and being exported to and disposed of in the Global South. Multiple factors affect which countries produce waste and at what magnitude, including geographic location, degree of industrialization , and level of integration into the global economy.
2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. [9] According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. [10]
The "Global Waste Management Outlook 2024," supported by the Environment Fund - UNEP’s core financial fund, and jointly published with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), provides a comprehensive update on the trajectory of global waste generation and the escalating costs of waste management since 2018. The report predicts ...
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More than 15,500 waste management facilities help to conserve resources through recycling and other recovery operations. [1] On a global scale, the market size is expected to reach $530.0 billion by 2025 from $330.6 billion in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.0%. [2]
Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest waste management companies in the world. ... the global waste management was worth around $2,080 billion in 2019 and this number is expected to reach ...
The following table gives the percentages of municipal waste that is recycled, incinerated, incinerated to produce energy and landfilled. [ 1 ] Recycling rates by country 2019
If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050. [11] In addition, by 2030, CO 2 emissions from the production, processing and disposal of plastic could reach 1.34 gigatons per year—equivalent to the emissions released by more than 295 ...