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Charts
- Annual plastic waste by disposal method
- Electronic waste recycling rate
- Food waste per capita
- Global share of plastic waste by disposal method with projectionsGeyer et al. (2017)
- Hazardous waste generated per capita
- Mismanaged plastic waste
- Mismanaged plastic waste per capita
- Most common items of waste in the ocean by region
- Municipal waste recycled
- Municipal waste recycling rate
- Plastic waste emitted to the ocean
- Plastic waste emitted to the ocean per capita
- Plastic waste generation
- Plastic waste generation per capita
- Proportion of population served by municipal waste collection
- Recycling rates of paper and cardboard
- Share of global mismanaged plastic waste
- Share of plastic waste that is recycled
- Share of plastic waste that is recycled, landfilled, incinerated and mismanaged
- Share of required information submitted to international environmental agreements on hazardous waste and other chemicals
- Total waste generation
- Treatment of hazardous waste
- What are the most common items of waste found in rivers and oceans?
- What items of waste do we find in rivers and the ocean?