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Environment

Solid Waste Management - Total Waste Generated

NEA (National Environment Agency)

Data from Jan 2000 to Dec 2015

Last updated 06 Jun 2024

Total waste generated by Year

Data explorer

SolidWasteManagementTotalWasteGenerated.csv (16 rows, 185 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Total Waste Generated Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2000	4.64
2001	5.04
2002	4.81
2003	4.73
2004	4.79
2005	5.02
2006	5.22
2007	5.6
2008	5.97
2009	6.11

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Total Waste Generated	total_waste_generated	Numeric	Million tonnes	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_316f1b0ac752001277c24cd12c3df205"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Environment Agency. (2015). Solid Waste Management - Total Waste Generated (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 14, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_316f1b0ac752001277c24cd12c3df205/view

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Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

NEA (National Environment Agency)