{"id":29622,"date":"2026-04-27T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29622"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:52:51","slug":"unep-humanity-produces-2-1-billion-tonnes-of-waste-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/04\/unep-humanity-produces-2-1-billion-tonnes-of-waste-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"UNEP: Humanity produces 2.1 billion tonnes of waste annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that humanity produces around 2.1 billion tonnes of waste each year, while air pollution alone causes approximately 8 million premature deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"569\">In a post on X on Monday (April 27), the agency said that no ecosystem is spared from pollution and no living creature is unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>It added that pollution remains the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death worldwide, impacting ecosystems and human health through contaminated food, water, and air.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"774\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The UNEP also emphasized that pollution is both controllable and preventable, noting that transitioning to cleaner industries and adopting circular economic approaches can significantly reduce pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that humanity produces around 2.1 billion tonnes of waste each year, while air pollution alone causes approximately 8 million premature deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,218,30,896],"tags":[282,1010,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835],"class_list":["post-29622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-health","category-environment","category-nature","tag-pollution","tag-air-pollution","tag-unep","tag-humanity","tag-waste","tag-produces","tag-ecosystem"],"views":30,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}