Out of 17 million metric tons of municipal solid waste from food in Russia in 2018, two million metric tons were recorded in the country's capital Moscow. Overall, Russia accounted for approximately two percent of the global food MSW volume. The food waste per capita in Russia was measured at 56 kilograms per year in 2017.
Amount of food municipal solid waste (MSW) in Russia and worldwide in 2018*
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* The data was obtained from The World Bank's "What a Waste 2.0" report from 2018 and the Higher School of Economics' report "The Waste Management Market" from 2018.
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