Waste

[New] In 30 years the global rate of waste production will be double the growth rate of the population.
[New] Technologies employing AI to design out food waste could help generate up to $127 billion a year by 2030.
As much as 125,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, 35,000 tonnes of cobalt and 86,000 tonnes of nickel could be recovered by 2030 from waste batteries.
China alone is forecast to generate around 500,000 tonnes of battery waste by 2020, a number that would hit 1.2 million tonnes per year by 2030, when considering global consumption.
Of the more than 12 million tonnes of e-waste expected next year in Europe, an estimated 2.5 million tonnes (23 percent) will be plastics.
Rising construction activities across sewage and wastewater treatment plants will facilitate the deployment of submersible sewage and slurry pumps across municipal facilities thereby impacting global industry demand over the coming years.
Wales has ambitious waste reduction targets, including to cut food waste by half by 2025 and to be a zero waste country by 2050: As a result, there will be a reduced role for landfill gas over the coming years as the amount of organic waste in landfill sites reduces.
The IEA has calculated that solar goals for 2050 consistent with the Paris Accords will require disposing of solar panels that will constitute more than double the tonnage of all today's global plastic waste.
Food waste is expected to become a growing priority in Philadelphia's efforts to achieve zero waste by 2035.
Growth in installation of photovoltaic solar panels means that 78 million tonnes of material will need to be recycled by 2050, while electric vehicles could provide another 11 million tonnes of batteries by 2030.
The need to manage waste in an efficient manner with the help of a standard recycling technology is expected to boost the growth of the market in the coming years.
The amount of municipal waste generated in Africa is expected to double between 2018 and 2025.
The Pentagon's plans to develop weapons and strategies to penetrate Russian or Chinese complex defense networks are a waste of time and could lead to the defeat of U.S. military forces on the future battlefield.
The amount of us nuclear waste is expected to increase to about 140,000 metric tons over the next several decades.
The Increasing Use of Plastic Global plastic use has increased 20-fold in the past 50 years and it is expected to double again in the next 20 years, which is expected to reach 1.124 billion tons by 2050.
The opportunity that has become clear to the decentralized energy community is the idea of capturing waste heat and putting it to use locally.
Russia expects to process 80 percent of its waste by 2030 and is overhauling its approach to solid waste management in response to local pressure.
Xi Jinping's 'Beautiful China 2035' policy amid a broader push towards a greener economy, but by 2030 will create an 111 million tonne mountain of waste that will need to be treated - much of it plastic.
While recycling rates vary widely across the world, most waste is still sent to landfill or dumps; the World Bank also estimates that urban waste will increase to 3.4bn tonnes by 2050.
If not addressed, aging solar panels and batteries will create a mountain of hazardous waste for Australia over the coming decades.
The projected global spending on water and waste-water services is steadily increasing: from US$576 billion in 2006, to US$772 billion in 2015, to over US$1 trillion in 2025.
Indian cities are among the world's largest garbage producers, generating 62 million tonnes of waste annually: By 2030, that could rise to 165 million tonnes, according to government figures.

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Last updated: 17 November 2019