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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

U.S. Presidential Election by State: Electoral Votes, 2016

Biomes

Class

Rank

Kilograms per day

Value

Boreal forests/taiga

Deserts and xeric shrublands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

Mangroves

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

Montane grasslands and shrublands

Rock and ice

Tundra

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

Temperate coniferous forests

Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

7.43%100%63.1%21.0%4.15%41.7%93.1%
3.27%4.97%9.44%12.9%43.9%40.8%
60.4%7.22%5.20%2.81%40.6%
2.53%23.5%1.31%22.5%4.06%28.6%6.61%12.9%15.0%15.4%14.8%
53.6%37.2%28.5%8.24%2.02%6.81%
58.4%48.6%9.84%33.0%56.8%9.77%30.1%9.84%
8.84%1.87%2.31%18.4%11.4%2.67%13.1%48.0%30.2%26.1%5.47%49.3%
100%64.0%81.6%18.4%100%35.5%18.8%87.1%
28.5%18.2%1.13%1.00%3.15%29.7%11.0%9.56%12.6%22.5%19.0%13.5%
35.9%10.5%5.61%1.60%3.77%4.09%1.63%31.0%36.6%
2.21%1.32%1.73%2.47%15.8%83.7%
82.0%6.93%20.0%6.94%26.5%6.01%9.99%
34.7%6.20%2.51%8.09%14.4%60.5%14.1%28.0%
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