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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
It's the same as using GHG per capita. Waste, like pollution, is not diluted by number of people. A tonne of waste is a tonne of waste, no matter which side of the artificial line on a map you live on.
The use of per capita in cases like this is deliberately disingenuous, and is specifically designed to give the appearance that large population centres aren't nearly as bad.
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I was going to say this is no different than the GHG debate. We are small polluters in the big picture yet some get fixated on per capita statistics ignoring the realities of our geography and population density. Now there's always room for improvement as I'm sure we can do better with our GHG emissions and waste but the reality is that we are always going to look poor relative to the rest of the world when viewed simply on a per capita basis.