[Urbanstudy] Which is the world’s most wasteful city?

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Which is the world’s most wasteful city?
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Without the infrastructure to collect garbage, it’s dumped in rivers, canals and streets, and the result is unsanitary chaos. Other developing cities that are overburdened with trash they cannot process include those with fast-growing economies such as Bangalore and Delhi.

Mumbai produces the fifth most waste of any megacity, and last year Bloomberg reported it was “being buried under a mountain of its own trash”. The city of over 18 million people produces 11,000 metric tonnes of trash per day. Plastic wrappers and bottles fill the gutters, backyard waste burning contributes to air pollution, and the rest winds up in a giant open landfill.

In Delhi, which experienceda 50% increase in waste between 2007 and 2012, the lack of formal trash pick-up systems leads to rubbish mountains and impoverished waste pickers sorting through it for anything that can be reused or resold. Delhi’s garbage problem and its overwhelming smog could certainly make it the world’s dirtiest city.

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