title: Municipal solid waste management: identification and analysis of engineering indexes representing demand and costs generated in virtuous Italian communities.
abstract: The definition and utilisation of engineering indexes in the field of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) is an issue of interest for technicians and scientists, which is widely discussed in literature. Specifically, the availability of consolidated engineering indexes is useful when new waste collection services are designed, along with when their performance is evaluated after a warm-up period. However, most published works in the field of MSWM complete their study with an analysis of isolated case studies. Conversely, decision makers require tools for information collection and exchange in order to trace the trends of these engineering indexes in large experiments. In this paper, common engineering indexes are presented and their values analysed in virtuous Italian communities, with the aim of contributing to the creation of a useful database whose data could be used during experiments, by indicating examples of MSWM demand profiles and the costs required to manage them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2 - Padiglione Morselli, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy. Electronic address: rita.gamberini@unimore.it.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gamberini
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Del Buono
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lolli
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rimini
mesh_terms: D007558:Italy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D014866:Waste Products / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D014866:Waste Products
keywords: Costs; Demand; Engineering indexes; Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM)