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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