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Waste - Municipal waste: generation and treatment

<p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>This dataset presents trends in amounts of municipal waste generated (including household waste), and the treatment and disposal method used. The amount of waste generated in each country is related to the rate of urbanisation, the types and pattern of consumption, household revenue and lifestyles.</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Data source(s)</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>: OECD Annual Quality Assurance (AQA) questionnaire (jointly collected with Eurostat) for OECD countries. UNSD, Country Files from the UNSD/UNEP data collection on environment statistics (available at:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/country_files"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/country_files</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>) for non-OECD countries.</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Contact</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>:&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:ENV.Stat@oecd.org"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>ENV.Stat@oecd.org</span></a></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Dataset release date</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>: March, 2026</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <div style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;'> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none;padding:0cm;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'><a href="https://webfs-env.oecd.org/files/zMunW.pdf">Database documentation</a></span></p> </div>