The world’s waste mountain is rising at an alarming rate
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- Summary
- The article discusses a World Bank Group report on global municipal solid waste, highlighting increasing waste volumes, mismanagement challenges, and financial barriers to effective waste management. It emphasizes the health, environmental, and economic impacts of poor waste management and calls for increased investment.
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“The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm or refute global waste management challenges.
“A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste were generated in 2022.”
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— No evidence in archive to verify World Bank report data or 2022 waste figures.
“That figure is projected to rise to 3.9 billion tonnes by 2050.”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm 2050 waste projection claims.
“The share of waste that is mismanaged is expected to fall from around 30% to around 20%.”
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— No evidence in archive to verify mismanaged waste percentage projections.
“The quantity of mismanaged waste, including plastics, is projected to remain almost unchanged, at around 760 million tonnes.”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm 760 million tonne mismanaged waste projection.
“This report brings together the most recent publicly accessible municipal waste data from 217 countries and economies and 262 cities.”
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— No evidence in archive to verify data aggregation claims from 217 countries/262 cities.
“Poor waste management contributes to air and water pollution, damages ecosystems, increases greenhouse gas emissions and makes cities harder and less pleasant to live in.”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm waste management's environmental impact claims.
“In many developing countries, open burning is one of the main ways households and communities self-manage their waste.”
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— No evidence in archive to verify open burning as primary waste management in developing countries.
“Forms of self-management of waste include open dumping, open burning, burying waste in informal pits, dumping into waterways and coastal waters, and some forms of informal recovery such as recycling or composting.”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm listed self-management waste practices.
“Municipal waste management is resource intensive, with basic systems costing at least US$40 to US$45 per tonne in low-income countries.”
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— No evidence in archive to verify cost figures for municipal waste management.
“Globally, municipal waste management cost more than US$250 billion in 2022, projected to reach US$426 billion by 2050.”
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“Low-income countries would have needed around 0.78% of their combined GDP in 2022 to achieve universal waste management coverage.”
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“Low- and lower-middle-income countries will require hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the next 25 years to expand and improve municipal waste systems.”
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“The world’s waste crisis cannot be understood only as an environmental problem. It is also a financing, public health, governance and development problem.”
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