India [one example] currently produces 46 million tons of urban solid waste, an amount that we triple in the next 15 years, according to the World Bank.  Two thirds of this waste is left uncollected on streets, creating health and environmental hazards.  Methane, a green house gas twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, is being pumped into the atmosphere at a rate of billions of cubic meters per year. (via http://www.togetherasone.in/background.html)

Waste is a significant problem for developing countries…in many places, thousands of people literally live in the dumps - many of them children.

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