The table provides a breakdown of the amount of total waste generated in million tons in siz distinct countries in three years.
Overall, the United States consistently outnumbered during the period. Additionally, while the tons of waste production, regardless of their country, followed an upward trend, except for Ireland, that of all countries continued to increase throughout the period.
Focusing first on extreme ends, the United States made up 107 million tons in 1988, before rising to 150 million tons in 1992. By 2000, the rate grew dramatically to 209 million tons. Japan exhibited a similar pattern, with their figures rose gradually to 25 million tons towards the end of the period. The figure for Canada declined marginally from 20 million tons to 19 million tons, after which it increased to 29 million tons for the rest of the period.
Turning to the remain countries, Poland started at just 10 million tons and adhering to a falling trajectory, at which point the fugure peaked at 2.89 million tons, and the cumulative figure went up to 18 million tons. Ireland rose to 16 million tons in 1992, at which point they were higher than this for Poland, after that it declined to 9.9 million tons in 2000. Finally, Scotland began at only 3 million tons and deceased insignificantly to 2 million tons. For the remainder of the period, the numbers witnessed a positive change, and settled at 5 million tons in the year 2000.