Waste Atlas is an interactive
waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
map
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Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although ...
that visualises global solid waste management data for comparison and benchmarking purposes.
Waste Atlas partnership is a non-commercial initiative supported by significant global range non-profit organizations, including D-Waste,
ISWA, WtERT, SWEEP-Net, SWAPI, and
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Currently, Waste Atlas hosts waste data for 164 countries; more than 1,800 cities from all over the world and approximately 2,500 waste management facilities (1,626 sanitary landfills, 716 WtE, 129 MBT, 78 BT and 89 of the world’s biggest dumpsites).
Global Correlation Charts and Global Waste Maps
Global Correlation Chart
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s is a set of global charts which correlate waste indicators such as waste generation per capita and collection coverage with socio-economic indicators such as income indicators and human development index
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Global Waste Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although ...
s is a set of global maps that visualise waste management indicators such as waste collection coverage, waste generation per capita, etc.
Waste Atlas Report
1st Annual report
2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste
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generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. More than half of the world’s population does not have access to a regular refuse collection services, as for the waste collected, 70% of it is led for disposal to landfill
A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...
s and dumpsites, 14.5% is recycled
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or recovered in formal systems and 11% is led to thermal treatment
Thermal treatment is any waste treatment technology that involves high temperatures in the processing of the waste feedstock. Commonly this involves the combustion of waste materials.
Systems that are generally considered to be thermal treatment ...
facilities. It is assessed that 3.5 billion people lack access to even the most elementary form of waste management.
2nd Annual report
2014 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to unsound waste disposal, particularly in dumpsites. The 50 biggest dumpsites around the world are listed with the most important information relating to their operation visualized in a unified way. Data relating to the amount and the type of waste disposed in place, the size, the waste concentration, the number of informal waste pickers, the population and the natural resources within a radius of 10 km and the distance of the nearest settlements are presented. The research relied on crowd-sourcing 59,000 files from 25 countries. The results of the report highlight the health and environmental impacts of dumpsites and show that the 50 biggest active dumpsites affect daily, the lives of 64 million people, a figure almost equal to the population of France, their total waste volume is 0.6-0.8 m3 almost 200-300 times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza
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. The statistical analysis showed that a typical waste dumpsite covers an area of 24 ha equal to around 29 big international football fields.
References
External links
* {{official, http://www.atlas.d-waste.com
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