Categorization and Sorting for Waste Management

Dupre Mickael

doi:10.4172/2252-5211.1000227

Abstract

The success of the waste management policy is based on good sorting practice by the largest number of citizen. There are on the French territory more than 300 devices sorting instructions, collection or different labels. Sorting instructions depend technologies deployed in sorting and recycling management. Sorting instructions are essentially defined by technological factors. The users have to learn and respect the categorization of waste defined by the managers. The national average is 17% of collections which are refused entry sorting centers due to poor sorting. The goal of our study is to explore the link between the sorting instructions and the categorization process. For this, 191 individuals did a categorization task of several wastes. Analysis of the data shows that people use differents criterias of classification. More specifically, more natural categories such as material waste or use depending on the object are most frequently used by individuals. The results also show that the categorization according to the criteria of recyclability increases with knowledge sorting instructions and frequency of practice sorting.

Highlights

With the oil shocks of the 1970s, governments and industry are aware of the finiteness of raw material deposits
The French Law of 15 July 1975 amends legislation on waste management which hitherto was based on the order of Villers-Coteret written in 1539 and transfers responsibility Consumer Waste treatment in the public administration
The results show that the categorization of waste according to recycling instructions do not obvious

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Introduction

With the oil shocks of the 1970s, governments and industry are aware of the finiteness of raw material deposits. The French Law of 15 July 1975 amends legislation on waste management which hitherto was based on the order of Villers-Coteret written in 1539 and transfers responsibility Consumer Waste treatment in the public administration. If the Act of 15 July 1975 up recycling as the main objective in terms of waste management, it was not until the Act of 13 July 1992 to see the OECD created the Extended Producer Responsibility. EPR provides that companies, as producers of packaging, offering a solution to consumers to manage their waste non-polluting. Recycling and collection into place gradually over almost all the territory. The first year, the household waste recycling rate is 18%, in 1999 it reached 41% in 2004 and 55% in 2011, rising to 67%. In 2012, 99.4% of the population has access to a collection device whose waste is routed to the 257 sorting centers nationwide [1]

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