Climate And Clean Air Coalition Addressing Climate Change And Municipal Solid Waste

Solid waste management is a vast, multidimensional, and expensive challenge. And it is growing — the World Bank projects that municipal solid waste streams will nearly double worldwide by 2025. Municipal solid waste landfills are the third largest source of global methane emissions, and open garbage burning emits black carbon and other air toxics as well as greenhouse gases.

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