Municipal Solid Waste Characteristics and Segregation Efficiency of In-House Direct Sampling in Kuwait

Piyungan landfill is the biggest landfill in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which receives municipal solid waste (MSW) from two districts and a city, while its designed service time has been over and faces operational obstacles. Meanwhile, the volume of the MSW grows rapidly and exceeds the reduction rate in their sources. The difficulty in finding a new landfill area is the reason why appropriate technological alternatives in the MSW management are strongly needed. Therefore, the study aimed to evaluate the social and economic aspects and formulate appropriate technology based on the waste entrepreneurship (wastepreneurship) concept. The methods of this study were conducting calculation of waste characteristics and composition, social evaluation, and economic evaluation of the combination of composting, incinerator, and sanitary landfill. Waste characteristics and composition were taken using direct field measurement following Indonesia's National Standard Guideline about retrieving and measuring examples of urban waste emergence and composition. Characteristics of waste are used for the calculation of calorific value and energy. The social evaluation was conducted using an in-depth interview with the rag pickers. The economic evaluation was conducted using net present value, internal rate of return, and payback period. The result of the study shows that Piyungan Landfill with total combustion waste reach 82.22% has the potential of incinerator implementation. In social evaluation, the implementation of composting and incinerator technologies would open employment for the surrounding community and rag pickers. The economic evaluation shows the combination of composting and incinerator technologies was economically feasible with an average profit margin of 12.97% in the operational period of 18 years. In conclusion, the concept of wastepreneurship is relevant in Piyungan Landfill by adjusting the MSW management paradigm from previously cost-center into business-center.

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Impacts of socioeconomic changes on municipal solid waste characteristics in Taiwan

Resources Conservation and Recycling ◽

10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104931 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 104931 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kieu Lan Phuong Nguyen ◽

Yen Hsun Chuang ◽

Ho Wen Chen ◽

Chih Cheng Chang

Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Socioeconomic Changes ◽

Waste Characteristics

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Municipal solid waste characteristics and management in Gümüşhane, Turkey

Waste Management ◽

10.1016/j.wasman.2007.09.039 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 28 (12) ◽

pp. 2435-2442 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

S. Serkan Nas ◽

Adem Bayram

Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Waste Characteristics

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Investigation on Municipal Solid Waste Characteristics from Commercial Sources and Their Recycling Potential in Padang City, Indonesia

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/288/1/012134 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 288 ◽

pp. 012134 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

S Raharjo ◽

Y Ruslinda ◽

V S Bachtiar ◽

R A Regia ◽

M Fadhil ◽

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Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Recycling Potential ◽

Waste Characteristics ◽

Commercial Sources

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Unsupervised aided investigation on the associations between municipal solid waste characteristics and socio-economic conditions

Environmental Research ◽

10.1016/j.envres.2020.110633 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 194 ◽

pp. 110633

Author(s):

Jun-Jie Zhu ◽

Daeryong Park ◽

Da Tian Chang ◽

Cheng Cheng ◽

Paul R. Anderson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Waste Characteristics

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3r practices for municipal solid waste management in Asia

Linnaeus Eco-Tech ◽

10.15626/eco-tech.2007.002 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 11-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C. Visvanathan ◽

Radha Adhikari ◽

A. Prem Ananth

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Management Problem ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Treatment Technologies ◽

Waste Characteristics ◽

Developed Nations

Extraordinary emerging consumption statistics from the developing Asian countries hasclearly indicated the increase waste generation over the past decades. Most of the developingAsian countries are experiencing solid waste management problem in terms of collectionefficiency, disposal facilities, limited financial resources and weak policy interventions.Unlike developed nations, final disposal of solid waste in developing Asian countries isusually a matter of transporting the collected waste to the nearest available space for disposal.Moreover, sustainability of landfills has become a challenge in Asia due to variousconsiderations such as availability of space, technologies for gas capture and leachatetreatment, tropaical climatic condition and waste characteristics. Plastic and paper wastes aredominating due to rapid economic development. Treating waste as a resource is the first steptowards sustainable waste management and conserving resources. As for the biodegradablewaste, feasible treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion withattractive results have been established. The non-biodegradable waste fractions are to bemanaged by implementing the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. This article attempts to givea picture of the ongoing 3R implementation in urban municipal solid waste management inAsian countries. It was observed that in most of Asian countries, informal activities highlydominate due to lack of funding, government initiation, lapse in policy and public ignoranceon waste management issues.

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