• China accounts for 15.55% of all global municipal solid waste generation. • The US generates the most municipal solid waste in the world. • Public waste collection companies in America see $26 billion in revenue yearly. • In December 2020, employees in the waste management sector made an average of $29 per hour and worked 42 hours per As China Mainland stopped taking in plastics, global exports clearly dropped. In 2018, global exports totaled around 50% of their 2016 numbers. Waste also began to redirect, often through Hong Kong, around Southeast Asia. Hong Kong also takes less total waste than before, which may in part explain the massive decrease in exports. But there may III. Latest trends in world trade 2017-2018 26 General trends and drivers of trade in 2017 28 World trade and output in early 2018 37 IV. Goods and services - what is being traded? 40 Merchandise trade 42 Trade in commercial services 48 Global value chains 62 Digital trade 65 V. Global perspectives - who are the leading players? 66 National Waste Report 2018 Final Page vii Table 12 Contributions to the core data set from sources other than the states and ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics ACOR Australian Council of Recycling ACT Australian Capital Territory ALGA Australian Local Government Association 3A. Concepts in waste statistics: Waste Waste Source: UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire 2018 on Environment Statistics Materials that are not prime products (i.e., products produced for the market) for which the generator has no further use for his own purpose of production, accept certain types of solid waste,17 the policy came into force in 2018.18 Since China had been the major waste importer all these years, the ban threw the global waste trade industry into chaos. The import restriction is projected to result in 111 11 AFP, (2019), Philippines Ships 69 Containers of Trash Back to Canada, Channel News Asia, 31 May their own goals. In 2018, the highest policy-making body of the ITU, the Plenipotentiary Conference, established a target of increasing the global e-waste recycling rate to 30% by 2023. This would correspond to a 12.6% increase in today's global average. This third edition of the Global E-waste Monitor is a result of the GESP and its close icant percentage of cities' global emissions, even when treatment coverage is still poor as in many emerging cities. The SDGs demand we halve the amount of untreated wastewater and provide universal access to adequate san-itation. During the same period, the global population is estimated to rise to 8.5 billion people. These pressures will and Development (OECD) according to how effectively they man age their waste per capita. 01 Turkey 1.11 0.00 0.00 1.49 02 Latvia 1.25 1.69 0.00 1.72 Statistics (EWC-Stat), version 4 (Waste categories) asel onvention: Waste categories and hazardous characteristics Eurostat: Manual on Waste Statistics Eurostat: Guidance on classification of waste according to EWC-Stat categories SEEA entral Framework (2012) UNSD: Environment Statistics Section-Waste Questionnaire b. GLOBAL BIOENERGY STATISTICS 2018 7 FOREWORD The WBA Global Bioenergy Statistics reports are the only report focussing solely on the developments in the bioenergy sector. The current report is the 5th in this series. Bioenergy is a complex energy system and is an important energy source and will play a crucial role in the future energy mix. UN CC:Learn UN CC:Learn Global E-waste Statis