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All specific indicator methodologies are contained in the draft manual on waste in the SDGs (pending the addition of SDG 11.6.1 from UN-Habitat).
The global scale of urbanization and economic growth are creating a potential “time-bomb” regarding waste we generate in the world. If not addressed now, the significant negative impact on human health and the environment will be felt by nations at all levels of development. An estimated 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste were generated in 2016, and this number is expected to grow to 3.40 billion tonnes by 2050 under a business-as-usual scenario. Improper waste management is a major source of Green House Gases (GHG) and leads to various health concerns. Furthermore, it is the main contributor to marine litter pollution.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), introduced in September 2015, sets out several targets to address waste management, material efficiency and the impacts of waste on the environment. There are five SDG indicators directly related to waste management: municipal solid waste management (SDG 11.6.1), food waste (12.3.1b), chemicals and waste conventions (12.4.1), hazardous waste, including e-waste (12.4.2) and recycling, including e-waste (12.5).
UNSD is a co-custodian with UNEP for SDG UN-Habitat is the custodian for SDG 11.6.1. For e-waste, UNEP partners with UN University and UNITAR and UNEP is a member of the Global e-Waste Statistics Partnership. For the chemicals and waste agreements, UNEP partners with the BRS Secretariat, the Minamata Secretariat and the Montreal Protocol Secretariat.
The work on the waste related SDGs has involved a wide range of partners, including the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), EAWAG; the ECE Waste Taskforce, the UNSD Expert Group on Environment Statistics and others. Currently, UNEP is in the process of finalizing a manual on waste in the SDGs (pending the addition of SDG 11.6.1 from UN-Habitat). The manual was drafted through a partnership with RWA. UNEP will work with UNSD to utilise the UNSD/UNEP Joint Questionnaire on Environment Statistics to collect data from countries; additionally, UNEP will support the inclusion of waste statistics in the Indicator Reporting Information System development.
Contact: Specific contact points for individual indicators are included on the relevant pages, the overarching waste SDG contacts are: UNEP: Jillian Campbell; UNEP data collection system: Dany Ghafari; UN-Habitat: Nao Takeuchi; UNSD: Reena Shah; e-waste partnership/UNU/UNITAR: Kees Balde; ISWA: Aditi Ramola; BRS: Tatiana Terekhova; Minamata: Lara Ognibene; Montreal Protocol: Sophia Mylona; ECE Taskforce: Michael Nagy; RWA: Reka Soos; Diana Gheorghiu; EAWAG: Imanol Zabaleta.
UNEP currently has two funded projects on measuring waste which have contributed to pilot testing and methodological development:
Project on pilot testing and capacity building for SDG 12.4 and 12.5 (with links to 11.6 and 12.3)
Capacity building on e-waste and waste in Central Asia with UNU
Plus some additional support in partnership with UN Habitat from the Government of Japan for waste SDGs across Africa through African Clean Cities Platform. However, due to the importance of this issue UNEP is working to raise additional resources for funding the waste partnership between UNEP, UN-Habitat, UNU and other partners, including by leveraging the Waste Wise Cities Campaign. A project concept note, which has been shared with GIZ, for this work is here.
Contact: UNEP: Jillian Campbell; MoE Japan: Shigemitsu Tanaka (in consultation with UN- Habitat UN-Habitat: Nao Takeuchi); GIZ: Steffen Blume. For existing project related contacts, visit the project pages on waste capacity building and e-waste and waste in Central Asia.
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