Littering

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Littering Waste Minimization
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2050 Status Report

• 3 trillion kg of waste annually.
• 18 billion plastic bags being used daily.
• Electronic waste - a ? of all the waste, 95 of
  all toxic substances.

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Flashback

• 1 trillion kg of waste produced in 2007

10 left on the surface
10 burned
80 buried
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Flashback

• What did that waste consist of?

Paper
Plastic
Metals
Human and animal waste
Food Waste
Wood
Glass
Not recycled - ¾
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How could that have been solved?

• Landfills

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How could that have been solved?

• Incinerators

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How could that have been solved?

• More environment-friendly alternatives

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Year 2048

• UN convokes a world conference on global
  ecological state

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Industry

• Resource optimisation
• Improved quality control and process monitoring
• Waste exchanges
• Product design
• Fitting the intended use
• Precycling

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Households

• Appropriate amounts and sizes
• Not purchasing new products to follow fashion
  trends if older products still usable
• Mending broken or worn items
• Not buying products that do not have
  eco-labelling
• Education and awareness

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Goals

• Decrease the amount of waste by ?
• Recycle 80 of the current waste
• Recycle half of the waste left from past times