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Monitoring indicators for Source Segregation in Municipal Solid Waste Management
Tekijät: Reima Suomi, Ari Serkkola, Pirjo Korhonen
Kustantaja: Inderscience Enternprises Ltd.
Julkaisuvuosi: 2017
Journal: International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
Vuosikerta: 19
Numero: 2
Aloitussivu: 164
Lopetussivu: 180
Sivujen määrä: 17
eISSN: 1478-9868
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEWM.2017.10004679
Verkko-osoite: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEWM.2017.10004679
Municipal solid waste management is a crucial component in building a sustainable society. It is a very visible part of waste management to a normal citizen. To perform waste management properly, good indicators of performance and process efficiency are needed. In this article, we extract 33 indicators, basic, extended and supplementary for municipal solid waste management based on literature and a survey among 28 waste management companies. Our conclusion is that while reporting needs for different stakeholders are very different, they can be satisfied with the basic indicators and combinations of them. A vision also emerged: waste flow monitoring should be as fluent as the monitoring of water and electricity consumption in properties.