world garbage problem

The Global Garbage Crisis: No Time to Waste. Osaka, Japan, 6 November 2012 - With approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste generated each year, and volumes expected to increase to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025 according to World Bank figures, urgent action is needed to head off the threat to the environment and human health posed by

Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world''s ability to deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in less-wealthy Asian and African nations, where garbage collection systems are often inefficient

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world''s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas.

The world produces around 350 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. Estimates vary, but recent high-quality studies suggest that between 1 and 2 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans annually. That means 0.5% of plastic waste ends up in the ocean.

Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and discarded, two new studies say.

Fixing the world''s waste problem is 100 percent doable. But we must come together—public and private sector, governments, regulators, investors, international development institutions, climate activists, and civil society—to elevate the dialogue, spur action, and trigger more investment.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2018— Without urgent action, global waste will increase by 70 percent on current levels by 2050, according to the World Bank''s new What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 report.

Solid waste management is a universal issue that matters to every single person in the world. And with over 90% of waste openly dumped or burned in low-income countries, it is the poor and most vulnerable who are disproportionately affected.

Without urgent action on waste management, by 2050 this global annual cost could almost double to a staggering USD 640.3 billion. The report''s modelling shows that getting waste under control by taking waste prevention and management measures could limit net annual costs by 2050 to USD 270.2 billion.

The report looks at critical market failures, such as the low price of virgin fossil fuel feedstocks (any renewable biological material that can be used directly as a fuel) compared to recycled