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Waste Management in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of waste management news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about the collection, disposal, treatment or recycling of waste, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, waste management took 8.05 of every 10,000 news articles in 2019 and 6.66 in 2025, with a low of 5.73 in 2020, 28.8% below the 2019 level.
Basis: Annual waste management articles (101,095 in all) divided by all articles in the index for the same year, complete years 2019–2025.
Waste management coverage showed almost no seasonality between 2019 and 2025: the busiest month (March) held 8.96% of a typical year's articles and the quietest (November) 7.9%, against 8.33% for an even spread.
Basis: Within-year month shares averaged over the complete years 2019–2025 (measurement rule 6: within-year shares survive changes in outlet mix).
Of waste management articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 64.3% were positive in tone, 1.13 times the 56.8% positive share across all news, while the negative share (33.2%) was close to that of all news (33.6%).
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.8% of sampled articles carry a label.
Machine-assigned editorial priority ratings placed 60.8% of waste management articles at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, 1.43 times the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per article; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Landfill management and operations appeared in 10.39% of themed waste management articles between January 2023 and July 2026, 558.63 times its frequency in all themed news, and leachate management in 3.68%, 787.46 times its frequency.
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; lift against all themed news.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8,045 | 33.54% | 0.69 |
| India | 4,903 | 20.44% | 1.55 |
| United Kingdom | 1,705 | 7.11% | 1.22 |
| Nigeria | 816 | 3.4% | 2.48 |
| Canada | 672 | 2.8% | 1.31 |
| Australia | 665 | 2.77% | 1.29 |
| France | 417 | 1.74% | 0.88 |
| Ghana | 362 | 1.51% | 3.13 |
| Indonesia | 354 | 1.48% | 5.31 |
| China | 339 | 1.41% | 0.54 |
| Philippines | 320 | 1.33% | 4.23 |
| New Zealand | 312 | 1.3% | 2.01 |
| Germany | 265 | 1.1% | 0.94 |
| Brazil | 254 | 1.06% | 1.23 |
| Singapore | 248 | 1.03% | 1.16 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "waste management" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Waste Management in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23445752