4–5 Data warning/Foreword
Waste at every stage
Timeline: A history of waste management
6–7 Contents
A product’s life story
PRODUCTION
8–9 Mountains of altered rock, lakes of gleaming liquids
Waste rock per useful ore
Mining waste in Europe
Australia mining waste types
Aluminium production sites
Aluminium production waste
10–11 No energy without waste
Energy waste in Europe
Energy consumption world wide
Energy demand projection
Ferghana valley hotspots
Age nuclear reactors
Spent nuclear fuel arisings
12–13 The big waste factory
What’s in a mobile phone
Europe: “total manufacturing waste generated by sect-
or” and “hazardous waste generated by sector”
Typical hazardous wastes generated by selected manu-
facturing industries
Box Paper: Main paper producers
DISTRIBUTION
14–15 The packaging nightmare
Photo series unwrapping a laptop computer
Share of packaging waste in total household waste, Europe
Packaging waste production per capita, Europe
Packaging waste composition UK
Recycled packaging by type of material (UK)
16–17 Message ’round a bottle
Major exporters and importers of bottled water
Total bottled water consumption
US per capita consumption
CONSUMPTION
18–19 Consumption worlds
7 photos of families
Household expenditure trend
World poplulation trend
20–21 The relativity of basic needs
World advertising expenditures
Trends in number of items per 1000 Chinese households
urban and rural
Mobile phones per 1000 people
Household expenditure per capita and waste generation
per capita
DISPOSAL
20–21 Counting the bins
Japanese cases Neyagana and Osaka
E-waste types
24–25 Dump, bury or burn?
How long does it take to biodegrade?
What kind of waste management?
Solid waste management costs for selected cities
Scavengers: age and sex distribution scavengers
26–27 A model for waste processing?
Heftingsdalen waste transfer
Household waste
Heftingsdalen waste processing plant
28–29 Creative Alternatives
Location of waste collection programmes in Curitiba city
Development of waste quantitied from different collect-
ion schemes
30–31 Recycling – the right choice?
Glass and paper bars (recycling rates in Europe)
UK recycling rate and total waste
One-way dishes versus porcellain
Resources/waste economies when recycling paper
32–33 Discarding mastodons
Projection of end of life planes
Ship breaking: demolition countries %
Ship breaking: tonnage sold for demolition and in % of
total fleet
Scrapped cars: projection Eastern Europe
34–35 Routes of official waste trade
World map export
World map importers
Graph Basel trends
36-37 Crime industry diversifying
World waste trafficking
Major waste ports
IMPEL findings
38–39 International mobilisation
World map 4 conventions chemicals
Small map parties and data reporting parties
40–41 Waste definitions and legislation
Overlapping defininitions
List of maps and graphics
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