2024-02-28 18:02:17
This content was published on February 28, 2024 – 8:00 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) Two thirds more waste by 2050: the volume of waste in the world, at 2.3 billion tonnes in 2023, is expected to continue to grow exponentially, due to lack of action, with a massive impact on health and economies, warns the UN on Wednesday.
At this rate, current waste (excluding industrial and construction waste) should reach 3.8 billion tonnes by the middle of the century, exceeding the forecasts of the previous report devoted to this theme by the World Bank.
The crisis will be all the more acute as their growth is expected to be particularly marked in countries where their method of treatment remains polluting: landfills, open-air incineration (soil pollution, emission of greenhouse gases such as methane or pollutants like carbon soot)…
“Despite efforts, little has changed,” summarizes the new report produced by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). “Humanity has even gone backwards, generating more waste (…).
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