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Every year 11.2 billion tonnes of solid waste are collected worldwide (UNEP 2011). In upcoming years the amount of accumulated waste will continue to increase together with growing population, an urbanization rate, overall economic and GDP/GNI per capita growth, an increase in production and consumption, and changes in a consumption pattern. Furthermore, the latest World Bank report predicts that annual global solid waste management costs will increase from USD 205.4 billion to about USD 375.5 billion by 2025 (Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata 2012). However, there is a positive aspect to this waste—its huge economic potential. Today the world waste market, from collection to recycling, is estimated at USD 410 billion a year, not including the sizable informal segment in developing countries (UNEP 2011).
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Leal Filho, W., Kovaleva, M. (2015). Literature Review. In: Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10906-0_2
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