title: Searching quality data for municipal solid waste planning.
abstract: Effective waste reduction and recycling is predicated upon credible data on refuse generation and disposal. Despite improvements in the quality of data for municipal solid wastes (MSW) disposal, dependable generation and recycling statistics to support planning, regulation and administration are lacking. The available aggregates on national waste production from two sources do not conform to each other and fail to serve the requirements of local solid waste planning. As recycling estimates will be difficult to discern, the collection of generation data based on weighing waste samples at generator sites has been portrayed as the key for developing sustainable local databases. The coefficients developed from the databases for the various categories of residential, commercial, industrial and institutional wastes can be used as variables for waste generation models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jackson State University, MS 39211, USA. moe.n.chowdhury@jsums.edu
authors.forename: Moe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005060:Europe; D006076:Government; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D018505:Waste Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014866:Waste Products / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D014866:Waste Products