Table 3.

Waste generation per capita in Indian cities. Source: Kumar et al. [13,14].

population	waste generation rate (kg per capita per day)
cities with a population <0.1 million (eight cities)	0.17–0.54
cities with a population of 0.1–0.5 million (11 cities)	0.22–0.59
Cities with a population 1–2 million (16 cities)	0.19–0.53
Cities with a population >2 million (13 cities)	0.22–0.62