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See key illustrative figures from major reports, papers, and resources regarding pollution and waste.
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Cornelis P. Baldé, Ruediger Kuehr, Tales Yamamoto, Rosie McDonald, Elena D’Angelo, Shahana Althaf, Garam Bel, Otmar Deubzer, Elena Fernandez-Cubillo, Vanessa Forti, Vanessa Gray, Sunil Herat, Shunichi Honda, Giulia Iattoni, Deepali S. Khetriwal, Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia, Yuliya Lobuntsova, Innocent Nnorom, Noémie Pralat, Michelle Wagner (2024). International Telecom- munication Union (ITU) and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). 2024. Global E-waste Monitor 2024. Geneva/Bonn.
Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations Environment Programme (2021). Global assessment of soil pollution - Summary for policy makers. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb4827en.
Health Effects Institute. 2024. State of Global Air 2024. Special Report. Boston, MA:Health Effects Institute.
Kaza, Silpa, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Frank Van Woerden. 2018. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050. Urban Development Series. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1329-0. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO
OECD (2022), Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/de747aef-en.
Scheringer, M., & Schulz, R. (2025). The state of the world’s chemical pollution. In Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 50. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-111523-102318
United Nations Environment Programme (2021). From Pollution to Solution: A global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution. Nairobi.
United Nations Environment Programme (2024): Global Resources Outlook 2024: Bend the Trend – Pathways to a liveable planet as resource use spikes. International Resource Panel. Nairobi. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/44901
United Nations Environment Programme (2024). Global Waste Management Outlook 2024: Beyond an age of waste – Turning rubbish into a resource. Nairobi. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/44939
United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2024. Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment. Nairobi. https://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/46562
W.J. Brownlie, M.A. Sutton, K.V. Heal, D.S. Reay, B.M. Spears (eds.) (2022). Our Phosphorus Future. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17834.08645
WWF UK, 2021: Nitrogen: Finding The Balance Towards A Comprehensive Approach To Nitrogen In The UK, (WWF UK, London, 2022)
United Nations Environment Programme (2024): Global Resources Outlook 2024: Bend the Trend – Pathways to a liveable planet as resource use spikes. International Resource Panel. Nairobi. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/44901
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 2022. The Global Land Outlook,second edition. UNCCD, Bonn.
United Nations Environment Programme (2024). Global Waste Management Outlook 2024: Beyond an age of waste – Turning rubbish into a resource. Nairobi. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/44939
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