What a Waste 2.0, A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
Year: 2018 Language: english Author: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank Genre: Research papers Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 296 Description: Solid waste management is a universal issue affecting every single person in the world. Individuals and governments make decisions about consumption and waste management that affect the daily health, productivity, and cleanliness of communities. Poorly managed waste is contaminating the world’s oceans, clogging drains and causing flooding, transmitting diseases via breeding of vectors, increasing respiratory problems through airborne particles from burning of waste, harming animals that consume waste unknowingly, and affecting economic development such as through diminished tourism. Unmanaged and improperly managed waste from decades of economic growth requires urgent action at all levels of society. As countries develop from low-income to middle- and high-income levels, their waste management situations also evolve. Growth in prosperity and movement to urban areas are linked to increases in per capita generation of waste. Furthermore, rapid urbanization and population growth create larger population centers, making the collection of all waste and the procuring of land for treatment and disposal more and more difficult. Urban waste management is expensive. Waste management can be the single highest budget item for many local administrations in low-income countries, where it comprises nearly 20 percent of municipal budgets, on average. In middle-income countries, solid waste management typically accounts for more than 10 percent of municipal budgets, and it accounts for about 4 percent in high-income countries. Budget resources devoted to waste management can be much higher in certain cases.
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What a Waste 2.0, A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
Language: english
Author: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Genre: Research papers
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 296
Description: Solid waste management is a universal issue affecting every single person
in the world. Individuals and governments make decisions about consumption
and waste management that affect the daily health, productivity,
and cleanliness of communities. Poorly managed waste is contaminating the
world’s oceans, clogging drains and causing flooding, transmitting diseases
via breeding of vectors, increasing respiratory problems through airborne
particles from burning of waste, harming animals that consume waste
unknowingly, and affecting economic development such as through diminished
tourism. Unmanaged and improperly managed waste from decades of
economic growth requires urgent action at all levels of society.
As countries develop from low-income to middle- and high-income
levels,
their waste management situations also evolve. Growth in prosperity
and movement to urban areas are linked to increases in per capita generation
of waste. Furthermore, rapid urbanization and population growth create
larger population centers, making the collection of all waste and the
procuring of land for treatment and disposal more and more difficult.
Urban waste management is expensive. Waste management can be the
single highest budget item for many local administrations in low-income
countries, where it comprises nearly 20 percent of municipal budgets, on
average. In middle-income countries, solid waste management typically
accounts for more than 10 percent of municipal budgets, and it accounts
for about 4 percent
in high-income countries. Budget resources devoted to
waste management can be much higher in certain cases.
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