Before you play

What Municipal Waste Means

This game compares municipal solid waste generated per person per day.

  • Municipal waste mostly means household waste plus similar waste from shops, offices, institutions, and public spaces.
  • Industrial, mining, agricultural, and construction waste are outside this metric.
  • Those excluded streams make up most waste by mass; municipal trash is the visible slice, not the whole pile.
  • In each round, pick the country with the higher municipal waste generated per person.

The visible trash stream is not the whole waste economy.