Field Of Municipal Waste Management Research Articles

IoT based sustainable smart waste management system evaluation using MCDM model under interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy environment

Waste management has a crucial role for human health and well-being. The novel waste collection technologies, information and communications technologies (ICTs) and Internet of Things (IoT) play important roles in the field of municipal waste management considering sustainability aspects such as economic, social and environmental. Considering future development and the sustainability of the environment, selecting the most appropriate smart technology to manage waste collection may have long-term impacts. This paper aims to evaluate the smart waste collection systems based on IoT with respect to uncertain parameters by applying modified Entropy measure and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method for the local municipal in Istanbul. To deal with uncertainty and vagueness associated with the decision-making process Interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (IVq-ROFSs) is employed in the process. As a result, the waste collection system developed using RFID, GIS and GPRS is selected as the most appropriate smart waste collection system based on IoT for municipal. To validate results and prove robustness of the proposed method in the decision making, Sensitivity and Comparative analysis are conducted at the end of the study.

Municipal Waste Management in Poland Compared to Other European Union Countries

The paper discusses the current state of municipal waste management in Poland compared to other European Union countries. It indicates the amounts of municipal waste generated over the last few years in Poland and other EU countries. The paper compares waste treatment methods in Poland and Europe, such as recycling, composting, thermal treatment and waste disposal. An analysis of municipal waste processing installations in Poland is presented. The trends in the municipal waste management system in recent years have also been described. In the field of municipal waste management in Poland, there have been significant changes. The amount of waste sent to landfills has decreased, and the amount of waste recovered and recycled has increased. These changes are positive and reflect the development of municipal waste management systems in other EU countries. The article indicates the problems and directions of changes in the field of municipal waste management in Poland in the coming years, especially in the context of the implementation of circular economy assumptions and the goals set by the European Union in terms of increase the level of waste recycling and reducing their disposal.

Streamlining the Municipal Waste Management System in the City of Nitra (Slovak Republic) Based on a Public Survey

The main problems of the city of Nitra (Slovak Republic) in the field of municipal waste management include: 1. High production of municipal waste per capita; 2. Low rate of its separation; 3. High landfill rate; 4. No opportunity for composting; 5. Establishment of illegal landfills in the city; 6. Low waste prevention rate. To identify the attitudes and opinions of the respondents, and to evaluate certain behavioural practices of the inhabitants of Nitra in the management of municipal solid waste, we used a structured questionnaire (realized in 2020). The results of the questionnaire correspond to the behaviour of 4911 inhabitants of the city (6.46%). This paper evaluates the respondents’ answers, which could be utilised by the local government—not only for a more appropriate setting of municipal waste management and separation, but also in waste prevention and monitoring changes in the consumer behaviour of city residents. The degree of separation in individual housing construction (IHC) and complex housing construction (CHC) was statistically evaluated and compared separately. For paper and glass, a higher degree of separation was reflected in CHC; while conversely, households living in CHC avoided bio-waste and kitchen waste more than IHC households. The most common reason for not participating in the separate collection was the lack of collection containers, the distance of containers from their households, or the low frequency of their collection. The results of the questionnaire show the need for more rigorous education about waste generation, its proper separation, and its prevention.

New waste management within Russian Universities

The subject of this article is the effective waste management at the Ural Federal University (UrFU). The topic of waste management has become increasingly relevant in recent years. At the moment, the Russian Federation is undergoing reforms in the field of municipal waste management, which also affects educational institutions. Wherein graduate school should reflect the advanced knowledge, experience and trends that exist in society. Purpose of the study was improving this system, taking into account the regulatory and legal requirements of the State involving modern challenges and best practices. Since in the new Russian conditions there is no uniform practice of forming this system, the article analyzes the treatment of MSW across the globe. This scheme of circulation in Russian universities can be exemplified by related work. The successful introduction of separate waste collection at the university, with the support of its administration, is largely due to economic interest. The rationale for implementing a separate waste collection system was based on economic efficiency. This efficiency was determined on the income ratio between costs for removal part of the generated municipal waste and the subsequent sale through utilisation companies combined with the cost of organizing Sustainable Waste Collection in UrFU. Calculations have shown that separate waste collection organized on the territory of a large institution (UrFU) can be economically efficient in collecting the most massive, demanded fractions. The proposed system of waste collection management can be used as a model for implementation in UrFU and other universities of the Russian Federation, as well as considered one of the major components of the environmental and economic activities of Russian universities. This system has of course taken into account international ratings of the «green» economy and sustainable development.

Issues in the Field of Municipal Waste Management

EU waste management policies aim to reduce the environmental and health impacts of waste and improve the efficiency of the use of EU resources. The long-term goal of these policies is to reduce the amount of waste generated and when waste production is necessary to support their resources and to achieve a higher level of recycling and safe disposal of waste. At present, the waste management of Slovakia has many problems and does not fulfill the goals of the European Union in this direction. Comparison of waste management in Slovakia and in other EU countries allows us to find out what is the main difference and in what ways the desired result is achieved in accordance with the regulations of the European Union.

THE TERRITORIAL SCHEME OF WASTE MANAGEMENT AS A REGULATORY INSTRUMENT FOR THE FORMATION OF A SEPARATE WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM

The issues of application of the Territorial scheme of waste management in the Udmurt Republic and legal regulation in the field of municipal waste management from the position of forming a system of separate waste collection are considered. The main focus is on the regulatory and management mechanism for the application of the Territorial scheme from the point of view of the formation of waste processing infrastructure, their use as secondary raw materials and the introduction of waste separation collection. The article analyzes the experience of various countries in minimizing the anthropogenic impact of waste and introducing separate collection with the extraction of secondary raw materials using legal methods. There are "gaps" in the practice of developing and implementing a Territorial scheme as a resource for creating an administrative and legal field for separate waste collection and from the point of view of attracting the processor, as well as from the point of view of forming the ecological culture of the population. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made on the need to include in the points and sections of the scheme, on the example of the Udmurt Republic, mechanisms for implementing separate waste collection, forming an environmental culture of the population and attracting processors as active participants in the MSW management system.

Analiza prakse upravljanja komunalnim otpadom u Republici Srbiji

This paper presents an analysis of the current practice in the field of municipal waste management in the Republic of Serbia. Data on generated, reused and disposed waste, collected by the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency, have been analyzed. The analysis showed that part of the generated waste is still not properly disposed of in sanitary landfills. Also, the paper presents municipal waste management methods that are most commonly used in the Republic of Serbia. From the data analyzed, it was concluded that the most commonly used method of waste management is landfill disposal. The aim of the paper is to present the improvements made so far in the field of municipal waste management practice through the Waste Management Strategy 2011 to 2019 with reference to the betterments and changes expected in the new Strategy in the coming period.

The Method for Evaluation and Selection of Investment Projects in the Field of Municipal Waste Management

Background/Objectives: Relevance of the work is determined by the fact that one of municipal authorities’ tasks is to create conditions for a comfortable residence of the citizens. The article deals with the procedure for evaluation and selection of investment projects relating to municipal solid waste management. Methods: The main methods for the evaluation and selection of investment projects are expert method enabling to evaluate the social significance of the project; risk assessment method based on the theory of fuzzy sets to overcome the drawbacks of the probabilistic and the minimax approaches; Pareto method to form a set of projects according to the attractiveness and the risk criteria; cluster analysis to allocate implementation priority to the projects. Findings: A methodology of socially significant investment projects selection in the field of municipal solid waste is provided, taking into account the social, environmental, and economic impacts of the projects implementation. The social significance of investment projects must be the main criteria for their selection. An investment program for the development of municipal solid waste management is drawn up based on the selected investment projects. Improvements/Application: The technique allows forming a municipal program of investment in the development of the municipal solid waste sphere, which for the first time takes into account the social, environmental, and economic imperatives as a whole, based on public-private partnership.

Transformation of the municipal waste management sector in Poland. A case study of the Świętokrzyskie Region

The article discusses the transformation of the municipal waste management sector in Poland, taking place during 2011- 2013, upon the case study of the Świętokrzyskie Region. The pivotal assumptions of the new model of municipal waste management in Poland are: the change of the owner of municipal waste that became communities, the improvement of the municipal waste collection, transportation and processing, and finally regionalization that means the division of the territory of Poland into municipal waste management regions. The research conducted among local authorities of the Świętokrzyskie Region has revealed that the system solutions applied in the field of municipal waste management, being currently implemented in Poland, though they are not free from socio-economic threats, lead to the fulfilment of the waste hierarchy, including the increasing levels of recycling and the reduction of bio-waste disposal.

Characterizing the policy instrument mixes for municipal waste in Sweden and England

AbstractIn the search for effective environmental policy instruments (EPIs), the interest in combining environmental policy instruments – such as taxes and charges, tradable permit schemes, voluntary agreements, information measures, and traditional command‐and‐control regulation – in synergistic policy mixes has intensified recently (OECD, 2001a). However, there is also a need to analyse the longer term pattern in the choice of instruments for a cumulative policy mix. The aim of this paper is to examine two aspects of this pattern – diversity and coerciveness – in the field of municipal waste management in Sweden and England. Based on an inventory of instruments adopted at the national level in 1995–2005, it is concluded that the diversity has increased in both countries, although the national instrument preferences differ. Two contrasting hypotheses on coerciveness in the sequencing of instruments are then tested; the ‘minimal‐coercion’ hypothesis by Doern and Wilson (1974) and van der Doelen's (1998) ‘give‐and‐take’ strategy. It is found that Sweden has made relatively consistent choices of more coercive instruments, while a pattern of ‘give‐and‐take’ of positive and negative instruments can be discerned in the instrument mix in England. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.