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The biggest companies in the world produce waste in numbers most people never see, often buried in annual sustainability reports that nobody outside the industry reads. A single retailer can move tens of thousands of tonnes of plastic packaging in a year, and the trend lines behind those figures rarely match the headlines.

The articles here pull the data behind familiar brands: how much waste they actually produce, how much they've cut, and what their sustainability claims look like once the numbers are on the page.

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How much waste does Poland produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Poland is estimated to generate about 149.8 million tonnes of waste in 2026, down from the 174.9 million tonnes Eurostat measured in 2022, the fourth-largest total in the EU. Below are the year-by-year totals, why mines and power plants weigh so heavily in it, how much of it is packaging and how Poland compares with the EU recycling targets.

Stella Winther
Stella Winther
EPR statistics & facts 9 min

How much waste does the Netherlands produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

The Netherlands is estimated to generate about 122.8 million tonnes of waste in 2026, close to the 122.5 million tonnes measured in 2022, the newest year Eurostat has published. Below are the year-by-year totals, why two fifths of the figure is dredged material, how much of it is packaging and how the Netherlands compares with the EU recycling and landfill targets.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does Norway produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

For 2026, Norway's waste works out at an estimated 13.1 million tonnes, down from the 14.0 million Eurostat measured in 2022, which is the most recent year with official figures. Below are the totals year by year, why the Norwegian total jumped in 2018, which sectors produce the waste, how much packaging Norway generates and how close it is to its own recycling targets.

Stella Winther
Stella Winther
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How much waste does Spain produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Spain is estimated to generate about 109.7 million tonnes of waste in 2026, close to the 110.1 million tonnes measured in 2022, the newest year Eurostat has published. Below are the year-by-year totals, why the recorded figure fell so sharply in 2020, where the waste comes from, how much of it is packaging and how Spain compares with the EU landfill and recycling targets.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does Italy produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Italy is estimated to generate about 189.1 million tonnes of waste in 2026, close to the 189.6 million tonnes measured in 2022, the newest year Eurostat has published. Below are the year-by-year totals, the sectors the waste comes from, how much of it is packaging, and how Italy's packaging recycling compares with the EU targets.

Stella Winther
Stella Winther
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How much waste does the UK produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

For 2026 the UK's waste works out at an estimated 208 million tonnes, moved on from a 2024 estimate built on England's measured total, because Defra's newest UK-wide count is from 2020. Below are the year-by-year totals, where the waste comes from, how much households and packaging add, and how the UK stands against its packaging targets.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does France produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

France is estimated to generate about 343.8 million tonnes of waste in 2026, level with the 343.2 million Eurostat last measured in 2022, the second-largest total in the EU. Below are the figures year by year, what the waste is made of, how much of it is packaging, and where France stands on the EU recycling targets.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does Germany produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

No country in the European Union throws out more than Germany does. Below is our estimate for 2026, the last year anyone actually measured, the sectors that produce the waste, the share that is packaging, and how its recycling rates stand against the 2030 targets.

Stella Winther
Stella Winther
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How much waste does Tesla produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Factory waste at Tesla reached 670,209 tonnes in 2025 on the company's own figures, close to double the 2023 total. Below, that record is set out year by year with where the waste went, why one year nearly doubled it, and the yardstick Tesla stopped printing.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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The 20 biggest packaging polluters in ecommerce (2026)

Below are the twenty biggest ecommerce companies in the world, ranked by the packaging waste their parcels put into the world in 2026. The estimated total across the twenty is 34 million tonnes, and almost none of the companies on the list publish a packaging figure of their own.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does Volkswagen produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Every plant the Volkswagen Group runs generated 3,084,812 tonnes of waste in 2025, more than the year before even though they built fewer cars. Below are the 2026 figure, the totals year by year, where each tonne ended up and the 108,629 tonnes whose disposal route Volkswagen could not verify.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does Whole Foods produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Every Whole Foods impact report gives the tonnage kept out of landfill and the share of the total it represents, and never the total itself. Working the two figures back puts 2026 at about 253,000 tonnes of discarded food, cardboard and packaging, roughly a quarter of which still goes to landfill.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does Wish produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Wish is estimated to produce around 1,250 tonnes of packaging waste in 2026, a hundredth of what their parcels carried at the peak in 2020. The marketplace is still trading under new owners, and this page sets out the figure year by year and how it was worked out.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does Taobao produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Alibaba report 457,975 tonnes of waste a year, and none of it is the packaging on a Taobao parcel. This page estimates that packaging at about 9.7 million tonnes for 2026, sets out the three numbers the figure is built from, and shows what changes if Taobao's share of China's parcels is higher or lower.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does AliExpress produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Nobody publishes a waste figure for AliExpress, not the marketplace itself and not Alibaba who own it. Below are the one official number that does contain them, the parcel volumes Europe counts, what those parcels turn out to hold, and the EU rules about to make somebody answerable.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does L'Oréal produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

L'Oréal's own sites are on track to produce about 165,000 tonnes of waste in 2026, and the group put a further 296,158 tonnes of packaging onto the market in 2025. Below are their published figures year by year, where that waste actually goes, and why the share being recycled is falling.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does Mercedes produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Nearly half of what Mercedes-Benz threw away in their last reported year had nothing to do with building a vehicle. Below are the group's own waste totals from 2024 onwards, the longer record of their factories, where every tonne ends up, and the four 2030 targets that reach only part of it.

Stella Winther
Stella Winther
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How much waste does LVMH produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

LVMH is on course to throw away about 132,000 tonnes of waste in 2026, across the vineyards, distilleries, workshops, warehouses and shops of their 75 Maisons. The bigger tonnage is the one they hand to their customers, because the packaging LVMH put on the market in 2025 weighed 223,795 tonnes.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does H&M produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Most of the waste behind an H&M T-shirt is made long before the shirt reaches a shop. Adding that hidden production waste to what the group's own stores and distribution centres throw away puts H&M on course for roughly 195,000 tonnes in 2026, of which nearly three quarters never leaves a factory.

Frederik Kiel
Frederik Kiel
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How much waste does BMW produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Around 850,000 tonnes of waste comes out of BMW's factories in a year, and almost all of it goes straight back into new material. Below are BMW's own published figures from 2019 onwards, what that waste is actually made of, and where the small share they throw away ends up.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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How much waste does adidas produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Nobody publishes a figure for the waste behind a pair of adidas trainers, a training top or the cardboard box they arrive in. Our estimate for 2026 puts it at about 131,000 tonnes, and adidas' own annual report carries no waste tonnage of any kind to check it against.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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