建设新型垃圾分类回收体系实现垃圾资源化循环利用

大连在全国率先创建新型垃圾分类回收体系,实现垃圾分类回收资源化利用,垃圾处理达到无害化、资源化和减量化的目标,具有较好的社会、经济和环境效益,同时也大力推进了大连垃圾废物资源化利用,促进了垃圾处理产业化和循环经济发展进程。     

城市生活垃圾分类政策执行中的问题与对策分析

随着城镇化进程的持续加快,全国各地生活垃圾产量持续走向新高,且依旧呈现上升的趋势,各地生活垃圾末端处理压力巨大。此外,随着生活水平的不断提高,市民普遍对周边生活环境的质量有了更高的需求,促使政府必须构建更加完善的城市生活垃圾治理系统。生活垃圾分类处理被视为解决生活垃圾污染环境、促进生活垃圾资源化利用的关键之举,在我国已有几十年的发展历程,但始终没有取得良好的效果,究其原因,政策工具的选择及其执行过程是关键因素。为此,以我国政策工具视角出发,对现行政策工具进行了梳理,系统分析了我国垃圾分类政策工具及政策执行过程中存在的问题,并提出针对性解决对策,对构建城市生活垃圾分类管理新模式,促进生活垃圾减量和资源回收是非常有必要的。     

城市生活垃圾分类体系建设实践及启示

生活垃圾分类处理是一个庞大的系统工程,由很多个子系统构成。在诸多的子系统中,我们需要将其中起主要作用的系统组合起来,有效推动生活垃圾分类有组织、有保障地进行。介绍了城市生活垃圾分类体系建设的基本内容和关键点,以及构建垃圾分类全流程体系的探索实践,从构建组织领导、长效管理和分类保障等3方面机制提出启示建议。     

对中国城市生活垃圾分类的思考及建议

城市生活垃圾已成为许多城市当前面临的极为严峻的问题,而城市生活垃圾的分类是实现垃圾减量化、无害化、资源化的基础。主要针对中国目前多数城市未进行垃圾分类的现状进行分析,并就实行垃圾分类提出建议。     

长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化综合利用政策研究

城市生活垃圾处理是一个世界性的问题。目前,长株潭城市生活垃圾每天约有4500～4900t,主要通过填埋来处理,这种方法有利有弊,而且弊大于利,主要是垃圾资源未得到利用,污染比较严重,存在安全隐患。长沙安基环保高科技开发有限公司全体科研人员经过8年的艰苦探索,提出了一种新的资源化处理垃圾的方法。此法能使垃圾全量资源化,实现“零排放”的目标。阐述了资源化法的产生过程和内涵,提出了长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化规模构想,重点探讨了长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化政策。     

城市生活垃圾预处理和资源化研究

分析了国内外近期生活垃圾资源化技术的处理模式和存在的缺点,指出了我国城市生活垃圾资源化的有效途径是加强对垃圾的预处理,提出了基于垃圾预处理的城市生活垃圾资源化综合处理系统,介绍了废塑料制作建筑板材的工艺和技术指标.     

大连实施垃圾分类回收积极推进垃圾资源再生利用产业化

大连在全国率先创建新型垃圾分类回收体系,实现废旧物资回收与垃圾分类回收在同一个垃圾分类回收站内完成,有利于各类废物资源集中收集、分类回收、资源化利用或处理,彻底改革了我国传统落后的废旧物资回收与垃圾收集处理方式,为废旧物资与垃圾资源再生与循环利用提供了保障条件,也为垃圾处理产业化奠定了坚实的基础。     

《主要城市生活垃圾分类和再生资源回收两网衔接调查报告》专家评审会在商务部召开

2016年11月10日,商务部流通业发展司组织专家对中国再生资源回收利用协会承担的《主要城市生活垃圾分类和再生资源回收两网衔接调查报告》（以下简称《报告》）进行了评审,会议由商务部流通业发展司梁志君处长主持,国务院发展研究中心资环所研究员程会强教授等专家出席了评审会。     

地级以上城市2018年年底前全面部署生活垃圾分类

记者从住建部新闻发布会上获悉:一年多来,城市生活垃圾分类工作已由点到面、逐步启动,并将在2018年年底前在全国地级以上城市进行全面部署。住建部有关负责人介绍,党政军机关等公共机构中,截至目前,134家中央单位、27家驻京部队已开展生活垃圾分类,134家中央单位全部通过验收,并建立11个示范单位。全国46个重点城市均已开展生活垃圾分类投放、收集、运输和处理设施系统建设。其中,41个城市正在推进生活垃圾分类示范片区建设,14个城市已经出台生活垃圾分类地方性法规或规章。     

关于生活垃圾分类的市场化研究

生活垃圾分类是改善生态环境,提升居民文明素养的有效平台,开展生活垃圾分类具有深远意义。对生活垃圾分类收集市场产业化运作模式进行了分析,以问题为导向,建立统筹谋划,靶向失策,系统改革的工作思路,对城市开展生活垃圾分类收集市场化发展提供了理论依据。     

Serving the unserved: informal refuse collection in Mexico.

The incomplete collection of municipal solid waste is a significant problem in the cities of many developing countries. Mexican cities collect less than 75% of the waste generated. The uncollected waste generates pollution and poses risks to human health and the environment. Low-income communities comprise most areas that lack refuse collection. In many of the areas where there is no official collection service, informal collectors provide this service for a fee. This paper analyses informal refuse collection in three Mexican cities, and argues that it can supplement municipal collection, create jobs, benefit the economy and help clean up the urban environment.     

Determinants of efficiency in the provision of municipal street-cleaning and refuse collection services

Effective waste management systems can make critical contributions to public health, environmental sustainability and economic development. The challenge affects every person and institution in society, and measures cannot be undertaken without data collection and a quantitative analysis approach. In this paper, the two-stage double bootstrap procedure of Simar and Wilson (2007) is used to estimate the efficiency determinants of Spanish local entities in the provision of public street-cleaning and refuse collection services. The purpose is to identify factors that influence efficiency. The final sample comprised 1072 municipalities. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates are obtained with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We apply the second stage, based on a truncated-regression, to estimate the effect of a group of environmental factors on DEA estimates. The results show the existence of a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed (per capita income, urban population density, the comparative index of the importance of tourism and that of the whole economic activity). We have also considered the influence of a dummy categorical variable - the political sign of the governing party - on the efficient provision of the services under study. The results from the methodology proposed show that municipalities governed by progressive parties are more efficient.     

An investigation on the fuel savings potential of hybrid hydraulic refuse collection vehicles

Refuse trucks play an important role in the waste collection process. Due to their typical driving cycle, these vehicles are characterized by large fuel consumption, which strongly affects the overall waste disposal costs. Hybrid hydraulic refuse vehicles offer an interesting alternative to conventional diesel trucks, because they are able to recuperate, store and reuse braking energy. However, the expected fuel savings can vary strongly depending on the driving cycle and the operational mode. Therefore, in order to assess the possible fuel savings, a typical driving cycle was measured in a conventional vehicle run by the waste authority of the City of Stuttgart, and a dynamical model of the considered vehicle was built up. Based on the measured driving cycle and the vehicle model including the hybrid powertrain components, simulations for both the conventional and the hybrid vehicle were performed. Fuel consumption results that indicate savings of about 20% are presented and analyzed in order to evaluate the benefit of hybrid hydraulic vehicles used for refuse collection.     

Marketization of refuse collection in Denmark: social and environmental quality jeopardized.

Refuse collection has been the main public service to be outsourced in Denmark since the E.U. guidelines on public procurement came into force in 1993. The contracting activities of the municipalities are framed by a complex set of ideologies and objectives, in addition to regulations. At both EU level and at national level, the demands for marketization of the public sector are counterbalanced by demands for social and environmental considerations. The procurement directive reflects the balance legalizing the inclusion of such requirements by contracting. The Danish experiences, however, tell a grim tale of subordination of social requirements in municipal contracting practices with implications for the quality of the service. The results of a recent study of developments in the working conditions at commercial collection companies show deterioration in respect of health and safety, competence building and job security concurrent with the increase in outsourcing and competition in the sector. In the analysis of the results, a combination of municipal cost-saving strategies, harsh market forces and cultural influences are identified as causal factors. Drawing on a brief institutional analysis, it is concluded that the existing normative and regulative framework of municipal contracting needs reinforcement if societal intentions of qualified public services and acceptable working conditions are to be effective. Initiatives to simultaneously improve working conditions and environmental results of collection are called for.     

治理“白色污染”的根本途径是建立垃圾收集系统

随着消费水平的不断提高,包装废弃物特别是塑料包装废弃物进一步增长,"白色污染"问题日趋加重.论述了"白色污染"产生的原因、生活垃圾中废塑料的含量以及对"可降解塑料"作用的认识,指出建立有效的垃圾收集系统才是解决"白色污染"问题的根本途径.     

LCA of selective waste collection systems in dense urban areas

This paper presents research concerning the environmental analysis of the selective collection management of municipal solid waste. The main goal of this study is to quantify and to compare, by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the potential environmental impacts of three selective collection systems modelled on densely populated urban areas. These systems are: the mobile pneumatic, the multi-container and the door-to-door. Impact assessment method based on CML 2 baseline 2000 is applied to the different systems. The study separates and analyzes the collection systems in substages: two urban substages and one inter-city substage. At the urban level, the multi-container system has the least environmental impact of all systems. The mobile pneumatic system has greater environmental impacts in terms of global warming, fresh water aquatic ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, acidification and eutrophication. In this system, the pipes and the pneumatic transport have the greatest impacts. The door-to-door system has a greatest environmental impact in terms of abiotic depletion, ozone layer depletion and human toxicity. An overall evaluation of the three substages, with a sensitivity analysis, indicates that the mobile pneumatic system at an inter-city distance of 20 km shows the greatest environmental impacts and the greatest energy demand. Inter-city transport is key; the results show that from an inter-city distance of 11 km onwards, this becomes the substage which most contributes to global warming impact and energy demand, in all the systems.     

Capacitated location of collection sites in an urban waste management system

Urban waste management is becoming an increasingly complex task, absorbing a huge amount of resources, and having a major environmental impact. The design of a waste management system consists in various activities, and one of these is related to the location of waste collection sites. In this paper, we propose an integer programming model that helps decision makers in choosing the sites where to locate the unsorted waste collection bins in a residential town, as well as the capacities of the bins to be located at each collection site. This model helps in assessing tactical decisions through constraints that force each collection area to be capacitated enough to fit the expected waste to be directed to that area, while taking into account Quality of Service constraints from the citizens' point of view. Moreover, we propose an effective constructive heuristic approach whose aim is to provide a good solution quality in an extremely reduced computational time. Computational results on data related to the city of Nardò, in the south of Italy, show that both exact and heuristic approaches provide consistently better solutions than that currently implemented, resulting in a lower number of activated collection sites, and a lower number of bins to be used.     

Time series analysis of the effects of refuse collection on recycling: Taiwan's "Keep Trash Off the Ground" measure

The state of recycling in Taiwan has seen significant achievements due to various recycling policies implemented by environmental agencies in recent years. These policies include the "Keep Trash Off the Ground" (KTOG) measure, the "Four-in-One Recycling Plan", the per-bag trash collection fee and mandatory garbage sorting. An important question worthy of study is which of these policies has had a more pervasive and critical impact on the outcome of recycling. For example, there is evidence that the KTOG measure made it more convenient for people to begin recycling. This study therefore first analyzed the monthly data over the past decade on the amounts of recyclables in Taiwan's three major cities. By examining time series plots and employing an analysis of the time series intervention model, we can better understand the extent of the effects of the KTOG measure on these cities' amounts of recyclables. The same effects were also analyzed for the mandatory garbage sorting policy and the per-bag trash collection fee. Results show that the KTOG measure, essentially a change in refuse collection practice, presented consistent and significant effects on these cities' amounts of recyclables. It is suggested that the key to improving participation in a recycling program in waste management is for techniques to be tailored to actual settings in a way that facilitates citizen cooperation.     

Comparison of semi-aerobic and anaerobic degradation of refuse with recirculation after leachate treatment by aged refuse bioreactor

Two fresh refuse bioreactors (F1 and F2) were operated under semi-aerobic and anaerobic conditions, respectively. The leachate from the bioreactors F1 and F2 was introduced into the aged refuse bioreactors (A1 and A2), and the effluent from A1 and A2 was subsequently recirculated into F1 and F2, respectively. The effect of the semi-aerobic recirculation process on refuse degradation was investigated, comparing it with that of the anaerobic recirculation process. Results indicate that the semi-aerobic recirculation process can increase the accumulated net production of leachate and promote evaporation. The accumulated net production of refuse in F1 is 320 mL/kg and that of F2 is 248 mL/kg, with leachate reduction amounting to 315 and 244 mL/kg refuse, respectively. The leachate quantity reduction of semi-aerobic and anaerobic leachate recirculation process accounted for 98.4% and 98.3% of the accumulated net production of leachate, respectively. The semi-aerobic leachate recirculation process can improve the biodegradation of organic matter from fresh refuse and the reduction rate of the pollutant concentration in leachate. This should shorten considerably the time required to meet the discharge standard and the time of stabilization of the refuse as observed in the anaerobic recirculation process. It was predicted that the COD concentration of leachate from the anaerobic recirculation process would reach 1000 mg/L in the anaerobic recirculation process after 2.2 years, as for semi-aerobic leachate recirculation process it is about 100 days. Compared with anaerobic recirculation process, the semi-aerobic recirculation process is more effective on NH₃-N transformation and TN removal. The NH₃-N and TN concentration of F1 is far below those of F2 at the end of our experiment. Refuse settlement in the semi-aerobic recirculation process was faster than that in the anaerobic recirculation process. At the end of the experiment, refuse settlement ratios in the semi-aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors were 33.5% and 18%, respectively.     

Key factors in levels of public satisfaction with urban waste collection in a northern Spain city

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management - Levels of public satisfaction among the inhabitants of Burgos with their urban waste collection service are analyzed by comparing satisfaction...