By 2050, the world is expected to generate 3.40 billion tons of waste annually, increasing drastically from today’s 2 ….01 billion tons. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 aggregates extensive solid waste data at … the national and urban levels. It estimates and projects waste generation to 2030 and 2050. Beyond the core data metrics …

Solid waste management is the one thing just about every city government provides for its residents. While service … levels, environmental impacts and costs vary dramatically, solid waste management is arguably the most important municipal … service and serves as a prerequisite for other municipal action. As the world hurtles toward its urban future, the amount of …

We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental … and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on … official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in …

We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental … and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on … official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in …

This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that … can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to … manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste, generation of which is projected to exceed 2 billion tons a year by 2025 …

Municipal household waste management (MHWM) is of great importance for both urban governance and sustainable … development. Currently, Chinese governments at all levels are making great effort to implement MHWM by waste classification and … recycling (WCR). However, the pursuit of self-interest by participants (i.e., urban residents, property management companies and …

comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to …Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both … from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally …