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Waste production (table)
The table below shows the amount of waste production (in millions of tonnes) in six
different countries over a twenty-year period.
The chart compares the amounts of waste that were produced in six
countries in the
years 1980, 1990 and 2000.
In
each of these years, the US produced more
waste than Ireland, Japan, Korea, Poland
and Portugal combined. It is also noticeable that Korea was
the only country that
managed to reduce its waste output by the year 2000.
Between 1980 and 2000, waste production in the US rose from 131 to 192 million
tonnes, and rising
trends were also seen in Japan, Poland and Portugal. Japan’s
waste
output increased from 28 to 53 million tonnes, while Poland and Portugal
saw waste
totals increase from 4 to 6.6 and from 2 to 5 million tonnes respectively.
The trends for Ireland and Korea were noticeably different from those described above.
In Ireland, waste production increased more than eightfold, from only 0.6 million
tonnes in 1980 to 5 million tonnes in 2000. Korea, by contrast, cut
its waste output by
12 million tonnes between 1990 and 2000.
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