Facts on Brazil:

• 204.860.000 inhabitants (81.900.000 Germany)
• 8.514.877 km² area (357.375,62 km² Germany)
•  2.417 billion USD nominales Bruttoinlandsprodukt (2014)

 Area of waste (2013):

• 78,000 tons/day of waste were diposed insufficiently (41.7%)
• A total of 62.7 million tons of waste per year is produced
• The state of Rio Grande do Sul 2.7 million tons
• 60% of the municipalities use unacceptable landfills
• Brazil is the 5th largest source of solid waste in the world
• The market is estimated at 24 billion BRL
• Only 1.4% is recycled
• 38% of the waste water is treated
• 36.9% of the water is lost during the transport

Facts on the state of Rio Grande do Sul:

• 10.695.532 inhabitants (1.605.173 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  
• 281.730 km² area (23.211 km² Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  

Facts on the capital Porto Alegre:

• 1.409.939 inhabitants
• 497 km² area

Source: gtai, wikipedia