Canadians are the largest producers of waste in the world

Canadians are the world's largest producers of waste on a per capita basis, according to a report by U.S. Today.

The report cited the results of a survey by the company 24/7 Tempo, which analyzed data from the World Bank's "What a Waste" global database, which was updated last September.

Garbage is dropped from a grappler into a hopper, where it will be fed into a combustion chamber and incinerated at the Vancouver Waste-To-Energy garbage facility where garbage shipped from the Philippines will be processed, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, June 17, 2019. [Photo: VCG]

Each Canadian produces 36.1 tons of waste every year. The second largest producers of waste were Bulgarians, at 26.7 tons per person. And Americans came in third place at 25.9 tons per person.

The U.S. Today report warns that the amount of waste being created around the world is expected to rise due to the growing human population and increasing urbanization.

A report by China News Service said Canada's poor performance was unexpected, as public perception has tended to see Canada as a clean and environmentally-friendly country.

The report pointed out that America accounts for only 4 percent of the world's population but produce 12 percent of the waste produced each year, and that the rate of recycling in the United States was the lowest among the developed countries.

The report says that humans have now produced so much garbage that it can be found in even the most remote reaches of the earth, including the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Qomolangma (also known as Mount Everest), and in one of the deepest regions of the oceans, the Mariana Trench.