Trends in Waste Disposal (Six Sentences)
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1 min readDec 10, 2018
- Between 1970 and 1990, the amount of landfill waste has skyrocketed from 50 million tonnes to 140 million tonnes.
- The amount of recycled waste has steadily increased from 10 million tonnes to 70 million tonnes since 1970.
- The landfill waste remained at similar levels during 1990 and 2000.
- The landfill waste dropped slightly by 10 million tonnes from 2000 due to the growth of recycling and incinerating.
- The incinerated waste went down a little by 10 million tonnes from 1970 to 1980.
- The recycled waste has increased by 60% to 70 million tonnes since 1980.
