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Global Waste Management Outlook 2024
March 7 , 2024
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- The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) and ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) recently published 'Global Waste Management Outlook 2024'.
- Urban solid waste is predicted to rise from 2.3 billion to 3.8 billion tonnes by 2050
- Over 2.7 billion people in the Global South and developing regions of the world not having their waste collected.
- Two billion of the 2.7 billion live in rural areas, while 700,000 live in cities.
- About 540 million tonnes of municipal solid waste, an equivalent of 27 per cent of the global total waste, is not being collected.
- In 2020, the global direct cost of waste management was an estimated $252 billion.
- By 2050 this global annual cost could almost double to a staggering $640.3 billion.
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