{"id":1530413,"date":"2025-04-15T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1530413"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:45:00","slug":"what-a-load-of-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/what-a-load-of-rubbish\/1530413\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Load Of Rubbish…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What A Load Of Rubbish…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eight billion people in the world generate a lot of municipal garbage. By 2050, the World Bank estimates humans will generate\u00a03.4 billion tonnes\u00a0of global waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s enough to line up garbage trucks from the Earth to the Moon and back – several times over.<\/p>\n

But, as Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu details below,<\/a> nearly half of all that garbage is from an unexpected source. <\/strong>We breakdown all the components of solid waste from\u00a0World Bank data<\/a>, which uses estimates for 2016 and 2050.<\/p>\n

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What Fills the World\u2019s Trash Bins<\/h2>\n

Food and green waste accounts for a majority of the world\u2019s garbage (44% of the total).<\/p>\n

Paper and cardboard (17%)\u00a0and plastic<\/a>\u00a0(12%) are the next two major categories of waste.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a positive correlation between income and waste generation. <\/strong>High-income countries account for only 16% of the world\u2019s population but more than one-third of the waste generated.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s the middle- and low-income countries that will lead to more waste generation by 2050, particularly in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n

Why is this?<\/p>\n

As the World Bank explains, waste generation scales up as income levels rise.<\/p>\n

For high-income countries, per capita waste generation is already peaking, and is expected to grow 19% by 2050.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, low- and middle-income countries (where per capita waste is much lower but where incomes are rising quickly) could see their waste generation grow by 40%.<\/p>\n

According to the World Bank, global waste is growing at more than twice the rate of the population.<\/p>\n

Want to get more perspective on staggering food waste? Check out:\u00a0How Much Food is Wasted per Person<\/a>\u00a0by creator MadeVisual.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 04\/15\/2025 – 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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