New York Is the Most Wasteful City in the World

“The New York metropolis has 12 million fewer people than Tokyo, yet it uses more energy in total: the equivalent of one oil supertanker every 1.5 days.”

Kennedy, also explains that some of the differences have to do with the climate of each city (colder cities such as Moscow and New York use more energy for heating) and economic activity:

“Wealthy people consume more stuff and ultimately discard more stuff. The average New Yorker uses 24 times as much energy as a citizen of Kolkata, and produces over 15 times as much solid waste.”