The theoretical Plastic Overshoot Day for 2024 is set for this week, September 5, marking when plastic waste production surpasses the planet’s management capacity. A study by EA Earth Action identifies the top offenders in per capita waste generation: Michigan Indiana Illinois The concept of conve...
Indianahas the second most waste in landfills per capita, with60.4 tonsof waste in landfills per capita,52.2% morethan the national average. Overall, Indiana has412.5 million tonsof waste in its landfills. 1. Michigan Canva 1. Michigan Michiganhas the most waste in landfills per capita in Ame...
Indianahas the second most waste in landfills per capita, with60.4 tonsof waste in landfills per capita,52.2% morethan the national average. Overall, Indiana has412.5 million tonsof waste in its landfills. 1. Michigan Canva 1. Michigan Michiganhas the most waste in landfills per capita in Ame...
"Food waste is a big problem in Singapore. In fact, we have one of the highest per capita rates of food waste in our region. The power of black soldier flies is their ability to upcycle food waste by eating it and converting it into valuable bio-materials," she adds. Insectta is the...
That decline was more or less consistent across the country, with just four of 20 regions showing an increase in waste production between 2016 and 2017. On a per-capita basis, Italy produced a total of 497 kilograms of waste per resident per year, only slightly higher than the average for...
The production of household waste is characterised by externalities and market failure, where the decision to consume does not consider the environmental i... L Panzone,A Ulph,F Areal,... - 《Waste Management》 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 ...
The U.S. per-capita figure for garbage production has topped four pounds per person per day, and that amount is rising at roughly 5% per year. In the past, municipal solid waste was sent to the nearest local landfill or incinerator. But ... D Taylor - 《Environmental Health Perspectives...
In the case of Asia-Pacific (AP) region, the per capita plastic production and waste generation are low as seen in Figure 1. This is because the population of this region is the highest in the world with China and India together contributing to more than one third of the world’s popula...
“If we expand the (use of) incinerators, the plastic use will expand with it, because it will be easy to just burn them,” she says, adding that the problem needs to be tackled at the production level. South Korea is one of the world’s biggest plastic consumers. In 2015, it ...
The conclusion from this seems to be that consumers themselves play a significant role in the production of food waste [15]. But are consumers the only actors that contribute to food waste? Research also points to the important role that retailers play in the production of food waste due to...