Note that we’ve visualized plastic wasteper capita, which is different from the total amount of waste produced by a country. It is for this reason that major polluters, such as China and India, are not present in this ranking. It’s also worth noting that this focuses on the demand sid...
Plastic waste recycling rate South Korea 2013-2022 Waste Disposal Waste generation distribution South Korea 2022, by type Waste Management Plastic waste export destinations South Korea 2023 Recommended statistics Overview Plastic consumption Plastic waste generation Waste processing International tradeKey...
How much is plastic waste recycled in the United Kingdom? After a rapid growth since 2012, the UK's plastic recycling rate has plateaued in recent years.
Plastic waste generation in the United States has been reported in the literature at the national level and such studies provide an important resource for a broad understanding of the plastic waste quantity in the country (U.S. EPA, 2019; Heller et al., 2020; Law et al., 2020). However...
income level, and solid waste generation rate, Jambeck et al. calculated that only in 2010, about 4.8–12.7 Mt of total 275 MT of PW generation entered into ocean from 192 coastal countries while in 1975 the total solid waste portion was about 6.4 Mt (Jambeck et al.2015). By the year...
Despite the fact that Europe is a global leader in plastics recycling and in diverting plastics from landfills by using waste-to-energy programs that convert waste into power generation, Europe, along with many other industrialized regions, recently got another major incentive to increase its ...
Feb 16, 2024 Reading time: about 3 minutes #business news #collection and handling A position for the wrong century: European Parliament's vote on the PPWR The European Parliament’s latest round of voting on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) reflects a stance that is behin...
In 2017, China announced an unprecedented ban on its import of most plastic waste, resulting in a sharp decline in global plastic waste trade flow and changes in the treatment structure of countries, whose impacts on global environmental sustainability are enormous but yet unexamined. Here, through...
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This statistic displays the distribution of plastic waste imports worldwide between January to November 2018, broken down by select country.