Global Waste Crisis
What Can We Do?
Facts and Statistics
- Global waste/ trash will triple by 2100.
- Waste will up by 70% by 2025
- Humans throw away 1.25 million tonnes of waste each day
- 1.4 million children die each day from poor sanitation diseases (one child every 20 seconds).
- 2.6 billion people don't have proper sanitation.
Waste in East Africa
Look at all the trash people live in; we can help clean that up!
Zambia Sewer
This is solid waste in an open sewer in Zambia; again, we can help clean this up!
Drought/ Trash in Kenya
You can see that there is little water flowing, if we infer correctly, you can see that there is a lot of trash around the water, so the more trash there is, the less water the people get. We can help the people get back water and reduce the trash/ waste build up.
India
Facts about India
- Top country without proper sanitation is India.
- India alone costs $54 billion for poor sanitation
- To build public toilets in India, it will cost them $1.6 billion
Facts about Kenya
- 100 million people in East Africa don't have access to proper sanitation.
- They have sanitation departments, but a lot of their equipment doesn't work properly.
- In Kenya, they use plastic bags as toilets, this is called "flying toilets"
- Their sanitation get worse as the years go on.
An Organization that Helps Find Cures for the Waste in the Third- World Countries
RTI is an international environmental “help” organization. They help clean up trash waste all around the world. RTI’s experts work with government officials and other organizations to help create potential solutions for waste management. They conduct various waste- management projects around the world. Some of their projects around the world are ‘Technical Assistance for Environmental Programs in Morocco’, ‘ Improving Solid Waste Management in Manado’, ‘Support for the Center of Waste Management, Abu Dhabi’, and various others. They’ve developed various tools to demonstrate the importance of waste- management to convey why it is so important.