A report analyzing the global waste market, with particular reference to municipal solid waste (MSW), has been released by Key Note, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of market information.
The publisher estimates the amount of MSW generated worldwide in 2006 was 2.02 billion metric tons. There is a link, according to the report, between growth in wealth and increases in waste—the more affluent a society becomes the more waste it generates. As the less wealthy nations develop, they too are creating more wealth and adding to the world’s waste output.
This report provides an account of published waste statistics for a wide range of countries. In the waste-management market, available data are often old, incomplete and lack harmony in terms of definition. Efforts are being made in more developed economies to produce up-to-date statistics, but for the majority of the world’s population, waste data are very poorly reported. The publisher presents a broad global coverage of available information, to provide an overall view of municipal data by tonnage, generation per capita per annum and disposal route. For some industrialized countries, the publisher has included statistics on waste streams in addition to municipal data.
An important part of the report is a discussion of legislation, government waste management policy and market structure for the major countries in the EU, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, South America and the
The publisher also developed a model for estimating the global MSW market by the tonnage of waste produced. This analysis is given for major countries of the word and is based on a study of population, gross domestic product, DGP per capita and an estimate of waste produced in kilograms per capita per annum. In order to analyze the data, the world market is divided into high, medium and low-wealth countries.
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