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MONETARY CONSIDERATIONS
Solid waste management is a universal issue
that matters to every single person in the world.
And with over 90% of waste openly dumped or burned in low-income countries, it is the poor and most vulnerable who are disproportionately affected.
In high-income countries,
operating costs for integrated
waste management, including collection, transport, treatment,
and disposal, generally exceed
$100 per tonne.
Upper-middle-income countries have the highest percentage of waste in landfills, at 54 percent. This rate decreases in high-income countries to 39 percent, with diversion of 36 percent of waste to recycling and composting and 22 percent to incineration.
"Adequate waste disposal or treatment, such as controlled landfills or more stringently operated facilities, is almost exclusively the domain
of high- and upper-middle-income countries. Lower-income countries generally rely on open dumping; 93 percent of waste is dumped in
low-income countries and only 2 percent in high-income countries."
- Trends in Solid Waste Management (worldbank.org)
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