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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. If you count agricultural, industrial and mining waste, Canada is worst

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 16, 2023, 03:07 PM

Mar 2023

1. Canada

• Estimated annual waste per capita: 36.1 metric tons

• Estimated annual waste total: 1,325,480,289 metric tons

• Waste treatment recycling: 20.6%

• Population: 36,708,083

Driven by agricultural waste and industrial waste generation, which totaled 181 million tonnes and 1.12 billion tonnes, respectively, in 2017, Canada's estimated total waste generation is the highest in the world. Canada produced 1.33 billion metric tonnes of waste, or 36.1 tonnes per person.

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