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Waste generation is a natural product of urbanisation, economic development, and population growth.
As nations and cities become more populated and prosperous, offer more products and services to citizens, and participate in global trade and exchange, they face corresponding amounts of municipal solid waste to manage through treatment and disposal.
The MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) represents everything that has been purchased and no longer used by citizens and is mainly composed of:
mixed waste and separately collected waste from households, including paper and cardboard, glass, metals, plastics, biowaste, wood, textiles, packaging, waste electrical and electronic equipment, waste batteries and accumulators, and bulky waste, including mattresses and furniture;
mixed waste and separately collected waste from other sources, where such waste is similar in nature and composition to waste from households.
The MSW production rate is proportional to the POPULATION INCOME LEVEL
Average production rate by Country in kg of waste produced per day per capita
Please note that the data are referred to the whole Country, nevertheless the actual production rate depends on the specific income leve of the area where the waste is collected. As an example in London City the quantity of waste produced per capita is much higher than the one produces in the UK countryside.
The MSW production is related also to urbanisation level
Waste generation also increases with urbanisation.
At a regional level, North America, with the highest urbanisation rate at 82 percent, generates 2.21 kilograms per capita per day, while Sub-Saharan Africa generates 0.46 kilogram per capita per day at a 38 percent urbanisation rate.
Size of bubble denotes the total waste generation in the single regions, in millions of tonnes of waste per year.
MSW main cities production rate
source: World Bank Group
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