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Info-sheets on
Waste Management

Little bits of info, clean and green.


With more than half of humanity living in urban areas, and industrialization/globalization of economies, we have come to experience significant changes in our lifestyles and QoL (for better or for worse!)

Along with this change has come the negative impacts on the environment - global and local. At the local level, one of the most critical impact has been the generation of waste, from households, industries and other sources.

A better understanding and lessons in waste management is emerging. This collection of short, one-page info-sheets hope to encapsulate some of these lessons for an integrated and broad-based approach to waste management.


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Contact: Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org
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? Did you know? Globally to date, there is about 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world – some 6.3 billion tons of that is trash. About 8 million metric tons ends up in the oceans every year.

Waste management is essentially a local issue, but is also tackled at the global level through three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).