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Toronto
New-York
Strasbourg
London
Kuala Lumpur
Budapest
Sao Paulo
Buenos Aires
Riga
Bogota
Caracas
Manilla
Bucharest
Tallinn
Hanoi
Madras
Lahore
Dakha
Accra
Source: MacFarlane, 1998; UN/ESCAP, IGES, 2002.
Solid waste management
cost for selected cities
Fukuoka
Macao
Kathmandu
Surabaya
Cebu
Ulan Bator
US dollars
per person per year
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Is your waste collected?
Waste collection is a basic
public service performed
for everyone in OECD
countries. Everyone? Well,
a closer look reveals that
this is not the case for
a significant number of
people. If these developed
countries can’t collect all
their waste, imagine the
situation in many develop-
ing countries, where re-
sources are much scarcer
and access is sometimes
problematic.
26
27
60
70
80
90
100%
% of the population
served by municipal
waste services
Czech
Republic
United
States
Canada
South
Korea
Portugal
Slovakia
Hungary
Greece
Mexico
Russian
Federation
Italy
selected OECD countries
Turkey