Saturday, 1 February 2014

World's Highest per Capita Solid Waste Producer


Believe it or not Canada is the World's highest per capita solid waste producer. Between 1990 to 2005, it has increased by 24%. By 2000, they produced more than the Americans (which was before the highest waste producer). By 2006, per person produced in estimate 1000kg a year. In 2010, Canada even surpassed the capacity of its landfill, forcing them to export its waste out of Canada.

Canada waste management took action to it and focus on 3R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. On this situation, it is best to reduce the waste but the hardest one although recycle would be least effective but it got more attention towards people.

<Source: http://wasteflow.ca/wasteflow.ca/Canadas_Waste_Flow_Overview.html>

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