A comprehensive waste collection cost model applied to post-consumer plastic packaging waste

Jim Groot, Xiaoyun Bing, Hilke Bos-Brouwers and Jacqueline Bloemhof-Ruwaard

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2014, vol. 85, issue C, 79-87

Abstract: Post-consumer plastic packaging waste (PPW) can be collected for recycling via source separation or post-separation. In source separation, households separate plastics from other waste before collection, whereas in post-separation waste is separated at a treatment centre after collection. There are also two collection schemes, either curb side or via drop-off locations. These different schemes have impact on total costs of collection at the municipal level. It can also influence the facility choices and network design. Therefore, a method which can compare costs of various collection schemes is needed.

Keywords: Municipal waste collection; CO2-eq cost; Post-consumer packaging waste; Plastic recycling; Cost model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.10.019

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