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The World has a Waste Problem. - Coggle Diagram
The World has a Waste Problem.
Consequences
Plastic debris kills more than 1 million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals.
Creating vast, toxic mountains that pollute the air, contaminate the water, endanger public health, and hasten climate change.
The proliferation of plastic waste is responsible for the majority of debris found in rivers and oceans, causing serious risks to marine life and coastal livelihoods.
Causes
Ever-increasing consumption.
Lack of reliable waste collection services.
Limited source separation of waste types.
Rapid industrialization.
Rising urbanization.
Reliance on unmanaged landfills and open dumps for disposal.
Solutions
Modernization of the waste collection process, increasing the scope and scale of recycling to recover materials such as plastics, glass, and metals, and organic waste for composting and energy recovery.
One example is the construction of Latin America's largest mechanized recycling plant in the state of Pernambuco, in the northeast region of Brazil, with a capacity to process approximately 2,000 tons of waste per day.
Regulations that support and enforce proper waste collection, recycling, and disposal are vital.
Data
The world generates over 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, and this is expected to increase 70 percent by 2050.
Waste is responsible for a full 20 percent of the world’s human-related methane emissions.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, around 145,000 tons of garbage end up in landfills every day.