A World of Waste: Risks and opportunities in household waste management

The World Risk Poll is the first and only global, nationally representative study of worry about, and harm from, risks to people’s safety. The Poll is based on nearly 147,000 interviews conducted by Gallup in 142 countries and territories throughout 2023 and covers places where little to no official data on safety and risks exist. This module of the Poll provides the first ever globally comparable measurement of people’s household waste practices. The Poll is a unique resource for defining the nature and scale of safety challenges across the world, including hazards associated with uncontrolled waste disposal. Governments, regulators, businesses, NGOs and international bodies can and should use this freely available data to inform and target policies and interventions that make people safer.