Quantity of municipal waste collected

China is the top country by quantity of municipal waste collected in the world. As of 2017, quantity of municipal waste collected in China was 215,209 thousand tonnes that accounts for 29.45% of the world's quantity of municipal waste collected. The top 5 countries (others are Fiji, Germany, France, and Turkey) account for 55.18% of it. The world's total quantity of municipal waste collected was estimated at 730,680.23 thousand tonnes in 2017.