Dept. Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Jaume I University, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain.
Waste Manag. 2014 Nov;34(11):1920-31. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.05.014. Epub 2014 Jul 5.
The municipal solid waste (MSW) management is an important task that local governments as well as private companies must take into account to protect human health, the environment and to preserve natural resources. To design an adequate MSW management plan the first step consist in defining the waste generation and composition patterns of the town. As these patterns depend on several socio-economic factors it is advisable to organize them previously. Moreover, the waste generation and composition patterns may vary around the town and over the time. Generally, the data are not homogeneous around the city as the number of inhabitants is not constant nor it is the economic activity. Therefore, if all the information is showed in thematic maps, the final waste management decisions can be made more efficiently. The main aim of this paper is to present a structured methodology that allows local authorities or private companies who deal with MSW to design its own MSW management plan depending on the available data. According to these data, this paper proposes two ways of action: a direct way when detailed data are available and an indirect way when there is a lack of data and it is necessary to take into account bibliographic data. In any case, the amount of information needed is considerable. This paper combines the planning methodology with the Geographic Information Systems to present the final results in thematic maps that make easier to interpret them. The proposed methodology is a previous useful tool to organize the MSW collection routes including the selective collection. To verify the methodology it has been successfully applied to a Spanish town.
城市固体废物（MSW）管理是地方政府和私营公司必须考虑的一项重要任务，以保护人类健康、环境和自然资源。为了设计一个充分的 MSW 管理计划，第一步是确定城镇的废物产生和组成模式。由于这些模式取决于几个社会经济因素，因此最好事先对其进行组织。此外，废物产生和组成模式可能会因城镇而异，也可能会随时间而变化。通常，由于城市的人口数量不是固定的，经济活动也不是固定的，因此数据在城市周围并不均匀。因此，如果将所有信息显示在专题地图上，可以更有效地做出最终的废物管理决策。本文的主要目的是提出一种结构化的方法，使处理 MSW 的地方当局或私营公司能够根据可用数据设计自己的 MSW 管理计划。根据这些数据，本文提出了两种行动方式：当有详细数据时采用直接方式，当数据缺乏且必须考虑文献数据时采用间接方式。在任何情况下，所需的信息量都是相当可观的。本文将规划方法与地理信息系统相结合，以专题地图的形式呈现最终结果，便于解读。所提出的方法是组织 MSW 收集路线（包括选择性收集）的有用工具。为了验证该方法，它已成功应用于西班牙的一个城镇。
