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Recycling rates by country 2019 Country % recycling % composting % incineration with energy recovery % incineration without energy recovery % other recovery % landfill % other disposal Australia: 24.6 19.8 0.6 0 9.5 55 0 Austria: 26.5 32.6 38.9 0 0 2.1 0 Belgium: 34.1 20.6 42.3 0.5 1.6 0 0 Costa Rica: 3 3.8 0 0 0 86.5 6.7 Czech Republic: 22.8 11.7
12 largest producers of plastic waste (+EU) and their recycling rates in 2010 Country Plastic waste per year (Mt) [47] Waste per person per day (Kg) [47] Recycled Incinerated (with energy recovery) Landfill (and incineration without energy recovery) Comments China: 59.08: 0.12---No official statistics United States [48] 37.83: 0.34: 8%: 14%: 78 ...
[59] [60] Per capita generation of plastic waste in the United States is higher than in any other country, with the average American producing 130.09 kilograms of plastic waste per year. Other high-income countries, such as those of the EU-28 (annual per capita generation 58.56 kg), also have a high per capita plastic waste generation rate.
An estimated 52 million metric tons of global plastic waste emissions are produced every year, a new study by the University of Leeds has found. The study, using artificial intelligence to model ...
If policies are not implemented to change things, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says "annual plastics production, use and waste generation are projected to increase by ...
Over two-thirds of those plastics are short-lived or single-use products which soon become waste, and the U.N. estimates that 19 to 23 million tons of plastic leaks into aquatic ecosystems annually.
There are higher proportions of plastics, metals, and paper in the municipal solid waste stream and there are higher labour costs. [1] As countries continue developing, there is a reduction in biological solid waste and ash. [2] Per capita waste generation in OECD countries has increased by 14% since 1990, and 35% since 1980. [3]
[23] [24] Ranks among the most polluted rivers in the country. [23] [24] Chemical waste of mills and factories, household waste, medical waste, sewage, dead animals, plastics, and oil, primarily among nine industrial areas lacking industrial wastewater treatment plants. [25] [26] [27] Citarum River: West Java, Indonesia ~5,000,000 [28]