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Municipal Solid Waste per Capita

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Amount of municipal solid waste generated by countries per capita

World Bank

A map displaying municipal solid waste per capita in kilograms per day. More than 1.5 is shaded dark red (U S A and Canada). 1 to 1.5 is shaded light red (Russia, Australia). 0.5 to 0.9 is shaded medium orange (Brazil, China). Less than 0.5 is shaded light orange (India, Democratic Republic of Congo).

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Municipal Solid Waste per Capita

Ecological Regions: Level 1 Regions

Class

Rank

Kilograms per day

Arctic Cordillera

Tundra

Taiga

Hudson Plain

Boreal forests

Northwestern forested mountains

Marine west coast forest

Eastern temperate forests

Great Plains

Deserts and steppes

Mediterranean California

Southern semi-arid highlands

Temperate sierras

Tropical wet forests

1.96%6.84%22.1%11.9%32.1%29.3%5.59%34.8%38.2%26.9%39.7%6.89%11.3%14.5%
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