The country tables

Consumption of NR Latex. The total world consumption of natural mbber latex was 585,000 t in 1993, more than double that of 10 years earlier. The proportion of total natural mbber used as latex concentrate also increased from 7% in 1983 to 11% in 1993. Malaysia remains the dominant latex concentrate producing country in the world (Table 12). Its decline in exports during the 1980s and early 1990s has been partly compensated by an increase in consumption within the country (Table 13). Since the 1970s there has been a gradual shift in latex consumption from the traditional consumers in Europe and the United States to Asian countries. In 1994 Malaysia consumed 175,000 t of latex, more than the combined consumption of Western Europe and the United States (see Table 13). 

The situation varies significantly according to the country. Table 2.20 shows the contrasting approaches to the problem of packaging waste in Europe with ... 

In order to estimate the fate of nitrogen accumulated in agroecosystems, we assessed the annual N accumulation in municipal waste for the urban area of the country (Table 16). 

The minimization of waste by the chemical industry was discussed in Chap. 1. The waste to be discussed here is municipal solid waste. This is the trash discarded from homes, businesses, construction sites, schools, or others. For a sustainable future, it will be necessary to recycle as much of this as possible. The amount of waste varies with the country (Table 14.1), with the United States leading the list as the world s foremost throw-away nation.1... 

The country tables, prepared usir statistical data from the FAO AGROSTAT data base, have been standardized. The projections have been made for the period -MayH 986-torApril-1987-and were based on data for the 3-year average (1982-84) some data from 1986 have been used. 

Usually weekly samples are collected and after filtrations, acidification and UV-irradiation of the rain or molten snow, Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn are determined simultaneously by DPASV at the HMDE and subsequently Se(IV) by DPCSV. This German Wet Deposition Program[26,76,77] carried out since 1980 by the institute, have revealed the main contours of the deposition burden with ecotoxic metals in the various regions of the country (Table 4). This also refers to the deposition of acid rain which is monitored via electrometric pH-measurements as well. From the wet deposition data an approximate assessment of the annual burden of the FRG by deposition of ecotoxic metals from the atmosphere has been possible (Table 5)[26]. 

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