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Fig. 2

From: Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal

Fig. 2

Global mismanaged plastic waste (MPW) generation in 2015. Plastic waste generation is computed globally on a 30 by 30 arc seconds resolution reflecting geographical heterogeneity based on population and GDP distributions. National data on waste management reported per countries (Waste Atlas, 2016) is derived to estimate the mismanaged fraction at local scale. The 10 largest producing urban centres are labelled on the map with Manila, Cairo and Kolkata as the leading agglomerations

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