The table demonstrates the total waste produced by six different countries in million tonnes in three years- 1988, 1992 and 2000.
Overall, it is evident that United States dominated in waste production, having the highest figures, while the opposite was true for Scotland. Additionally, only Ireland finished with the results, lower than in the first year.
Looking firstly at the US and Japan, these countries had the largest increase. US’ waste has almost doubled during the period, starting off with 107 million tonnes, then going up to 150 in 1992, before increasing by 69 in 2000. Japan was the second largest with an increase of 10 tonnes. It had 15 tonnes in the beginning, then this figure soared by 7 and 3 in the following years.
Canada and Scotland were the least increased countries. Canada started taking off from 20 tonnes. In 1992, it decreased by a tonn, before jumping up to 29 tonnes in the last year. Scotland ended up with 5 tonnes, a figure just 2 tonnes more than the initial.
Finally, Ireland and Poland were the only countries where waste decreased. Ireland, having initial 10 tonnes, climbed up to 16 tonnes, after which it started to decrease and stopped at just under 10 tonnes (9.9). Poland, starting at the same point as Ireland, lost just over 7 tonnes with 2.89 tonnes of waste in 1992, before soaring to 18 tonnes in the last year.