A group of researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) led
by Dr. Ernesto Estrada, has identified the list of countries with the highest
risk of saturating their waste management capacity. The article, published in
Nature Communications, has reconstructed the world-wide waste web, a set of
global exchange networks between countries that import and export waste. The
researchers defined a separate web for each of the waste types analyzed using
data from the BaC (Basel Convention on
the Control of Transbo...