1. Assessment strategies for municipal selective waste collection schemes
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Cristina Matos, Fátima Ferreira, Isabel Bentes, Carlos Afonso Teixeira, and Catarina P. Avelino
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Paper ,Engineering ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Process (engineering) ,020209 energy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Decision Making ,Waste collection ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Solid Waste ,01 natural sciences ,Performance index ,Waste Management ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Quality (business) ,Recycling ,Cities ,Waste Management and Disposal ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Models, Statistical ,Waste management ,Portugal ,business.industry ,Benchmarking ,Refuse Disposal ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Performance indicator ,Glass ,business ,Sustainable growth rate ,Municipal waste management ,Algorithms - Abstract
An important strategy to promote a strong sustainable growth relies on an efficient municipal waste management, and phasing out waste landfilling through waste prevention and recycling emerges as a major target. For this purpose, effective collection schemes are required, in particular those regarding selective waste collection, pursuing a more efficient and high quality recycling of reusable materials. This paper addresses the assessment and benchmarking of selective collection schemes, relevant to guide future operational improvements. In particular, the assessment is based on the monitoring and statistical analysis of a core-set of performance indicators that highlights collection trends, complemented with a performance index that gathers a weighted linear combination of these indicators. This combined analysis underlines a potential tool to support decision makers involved in the process of selecting the collection scheme with best overall performance. The presented approach was applied to a case study conducted in Oporto Municipality, with data gathered from two distinct selective collection schemes.
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- 2016