Recycling Hero Or Dumpster Fire? How The World Handles Trash
Recycling Hero Or Dumpster Fire? How The World Handles Trash
https://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?datasetcode=MUNW&lang=en
reveals that the American continent has a dirty secret when it comes to how it handles its trash.
almost 57 percent of municipal waste in the five OECD member countries on the American continent is still going to landfill.
While developing Latin American nations Colombia, Costa Rica and Chile factor into the count, more than 80 percent of people in the OECD Americas sample live in the United States and Canada.
Only around 27 percent of https://www.statista.com/topics/2630/waste-management-in-the-united-states/
or composted in 2022, the latest year the numbers are available.
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This is in stark contrast to the almost 46 percent of waste in this category in the OECD's 14 European member nations and also below the rate of around 31 percent in developed Asia-Oceania, namely Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.
The latter region also employs a method that is https://www.rts.com/blog/what-is-waste-to-energy/
amid criticism, it hasn't caught on in the U.S. or other OECD nations in the Americas.
Reasons why countries use landfills, https://www.pollutionsolutions-online.com/news/waste-management/21/breaking-news/incineration-vs-landfill-which-is-better/55768
published by the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, a lot of recyclable materials in the U.S. end up in landfills. The report faults outdated federal standards and based on them, complicated collection practices that vary regionally for these shortcomings. It goes on to explain that differing systems and facilities' autonomous decision making create confusion with consumers as well as unpredictability in the country's recycling market, both of which diminish the quality of recycled materials, curb demand for it and hamper the rise of recycling as a money-making tool for industries.
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