The first question didn’t specify in what country it is talking about so I will talk about the whole of the Earth and also the US and China as they are big places with big populations as well as the UK and France as I am from those places. Worldwide the human population produces about 2 billion tonnes of waste a year (just over that) and it is absolutely disgraceful. The US alone produced between 260 million to 300 million tonnes of the waste which is nearly a sixth of the worldwide waste produced annually. China has been producing more and more waste every year and in 2019 it hit a massive 242 million tonnes, although this is probably because the population of China is 1.4 billion people which is about 19% of the whole world’s population. Since 2010 the amount of waste produced by the UK has fallen with the only exception being 2016 when the UK produced 220 million tonnes of waste which is horrific seeing as it is close to the amount of waste that America has produced and our population is a lot smaller than theirs. I am actually extremely mortified at the results of my research on France as it seems that they are one of the worst countries at recycling waste and in 2018 alone they produced about 343 million tonnes of it which is absolutely horrible.
On a brighter note now let's have a look at the amount of waste that we recycle every year. I was unable to find that much information about how much waste is recycled globally but I found that the UK had a 46% recycling rate, the US 30%, for China there is no actual concrete evidence but the reports seem to be indicating 5% with 20% being the top number which comes from a journal which is closely related to the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment, for France it is 25% (very sad), India 30%, Australia 10% (very disturbing), Canada 9% (this is very bad), Sweden is very good with waste as only 1% of its waste is sent to landfills with 52% being burnt to make energy and the other 47% being recycled (this is extremely good) and to end on a fantastic note Norway is also very, very good with 97% of all its waste being recycled (better than Sweden because Sweden burning waste creates other environmental problems but it still gets rid of the waste).