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The Recycling Partnership to improve recycling
efforts in communities across the nation - a step that
is good for customers, good for business and good
for the environment,” he adds.
“There is an equation for sustainable recycling
success and the Partnership is making it happen,”
Harrison says. “The more support we receive from
leading companies and organizations, the more peo-
ple we can impact. The more people we impact, the
healthier our economy and planet will be in the
future.”
Countries producing the most
waste in 2006 - America, Russia,
Japan, Germany, U.K., and
France. But in 2016 the list is
quite different: Kuwait, Antigua
and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis,
Guyana, and Sri Lanka.
Urban waste in 2016 doubled
from
2006,
from
0.64
kilograms/per capita/per day to
1.2.
This equates to 1.3 billion tons
of trash in 2016 versus 680 mil-
lion in 2006.
Municipal Solid Waste accord-
ing to the World Bank which
defines it as "non-hazardous
waste generated in households,
commercial and business estab-
lishments, institutions, and non-
hazardous industrial process
wastes, agricultural wastes and
sewage sludge." The World Bank
predicts that 2.2 billion tons of
MSW will be produced in 2025, or
1.42 kilograms per capita per day,
which are increases of 69% and
18%, respectively, reflecting pop-
ulation growth for the latter.
Electronic Waste Leaders
2014: Norway, Switzerland,
Iceland, Denmark, U.K. Nether-
lands, Sweden, France, USA,
Austria. Norway is on top of the
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