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

Alibaba report 457,975 tonnes of waste for the year to March 2026, counted across their data centres, supermarkets and office campuses. That is nearly four times the year before, and the jump says more about their counting than their bins.

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

Black Friday is probably one of the biggest shopping days in the world. It has no official waste total, so this page pulls together the verified data on the packaging, returns and discarded clothing it drives, and flags the popular figures that do not hold up.

Oskar Mortensen
Oskar Mortensen
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