title: Assessment strategies for municipal selective waste collection schemes.
abstract: An important strategy to promote a strong sustainable growth relies on an efficient municipal waste management, and phasing out waste landfilling through waste prevention and recycling emerges as a major target. For this purpose, effective collection schemes are required, in particular those regarding selective waste collection, pursuing a more efficient and high quality recycling of reusable materials. This paper addresses the assessment and benchmarking of selective collection schemes, relevant to guide future operational improvements. In particular, the assessment is based on the monitoring and statistical analysis of a core-set of performance indicators that highlights collection trends, complemented with a performance index that gathers a weighted linear combination of these indicators. This combined analysis underlines a potential tool to support decision makers involved in the process of selecting the collection scheme with best overall performance. The presented approach was applied to a case study conducted in Oporto Municipality, with data gathered from two distinct selective collection schemes.
authors.affiliation: CMAT-UTAD, CEMAT-IST-UL, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal. Electronic address: mmferrei@utad.pt.
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: CMAT-UTAD, CEMAT-IST-UL, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal. Electronic address: cavelino@utad.pt.
authors.forename: Catarina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avelino
authors.affiliation: C-MADE UBI/UTAD, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal. Electronic address: ibentes@utad.pt.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bentes
authors.affiliation: C-MADE UBI/UTAD, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal. Electronic address: crismato@utad.pt.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.affiliation: CITAB/UTAD, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal. Electronic address: cafonso@utad.pt.
authors.forename: Carlos Afonso
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Teixeira
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019985:Benchmarking; D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003657:Decision Making; D005898:Glass; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010209:Paper; D011174:Portugal; D059027:Recycling / Q000379:methods*; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Collection schemes; Performance indicators; Performance índex; Selective collection; Solid waste collection; Waste management