Imbuedmalta

Imbued Malta aims to shed light on prevailing issues in Malta. Matters like air pollution, carbon emissions, urbanisation and waste management are affecting our country financially, environmentally and predominantly, our society health wise. In order to obscure the excessive load of information available on these subjects, a visual blog was introduced to explore and represent these issues through a series of infographics simply designed to quickly inform and educate, yet in a visual appealing way! Follow us on Ello!

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This infographic shares information on urbanization in Malta. 95.4% of the total population of Malta is urban population, which shows that only around 20,000 people are living in rural areas. The rate of urbanization on the island is also increasing at an alarming rate. 

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According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Malta’s adult prevalance rate in obesity is 28.7% which places us our country, 32nd in the world! Moreover, from other statistics, it is noted that the Maltese are the most obese, most physical inactive and also highly affected by diabetes. Recently statictics indicates that 41% of schoolchildren about either overweight or obese. 

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An infographic on the bad air quality on the Maltese Islands, which is killing an estimate of 230 people yearly and costing the government over €550 million yearly in deaths and diseases!

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An infographic about road traffic accidents in Malta, occuring in 2015.

15,504 road traffic accidents were recorded in the year 2015, an increase of 7.1%.

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An infographic about waste treatment in Malta, back in 2014. 

According to Eurostat, in 2014, every person in Malta generated around 600kg of municipal waste, which goes way above the European average, which is 475kg per person.

It has been noted that 90% of the waste generated in Malta has been treated, with engineering landfills being the most popular method of waste treatment!

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An infographic about water drought in Malta, particularly on how it is affecting agriculture.

It has been the worst winter drought that hit the islands in the past 93 years, which marks the first signs of the Maltese agriculture being affected by climate change.