Waste Atlas

Waste Atlas is a crowdsourcing free access map that visualizes municipal solid waste management data across the world for comparison and benchmarking purposes.


Waste Atlas is made with the contribution of scientists from different countries and the utilization of published data. Any contribution is more than welcomed but the figures published are firstly checked for mistakes or inconsistencies.


Waste Atlas already includes data for:


164 Countries (total 1,825,463,704 tn/yr or 97% of the Global Waste Generation)

1799 Cities

1626 Sanitary Landfills

93 Dumpsites

130 MBT units

78 Biological Treatment

716 WtE plants

CEO and Founder of D-waste: antonis.mavropoulos@d-waste.com

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