Global Waste Index 2022 – revised table

The 2025 Global Waste Index differs from the 2022 edition in that the categories „unaccounted waste“ and „open dumping“ were excluded due to insufficient recent data.

As a result, a revised version of the 2022 Global Waste Index, omitting these two factors has also been created.

Another difference in this 2022 revised table is that the weighting of each factor was adjusted in this ranking, i.e. giving one factor more weight in the final sum than the others, therefore emphasizing certain factors for the final scoring. Factors were adjusted with the following weighting: Municipal waste 4, Recycling 3, Waste incineration 2, Landfill 1.  

The result is the following table: