Pneumatic vs. door-to-door waste collection systems in existing urban areas
| Autor: | Markku Ollikainen, Henna Punkkinen, Eveliina Kuvaja, Elina Merta, Katja Moliis, Nea Teerioja |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Engineering
Municipal solid waste 020209 energy waste collection Waste collection 02 engineering and technology Environment 010501 environmental sciences Collection system Urban area 01 natural sciences Civil engineering Transport engineering Waste Management 11. Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans Built urban environment Investment cost Cities social life cycle costs Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Population Density geography pneumatic system geography.geographical_feature_category Factor cost business.industry SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities Variable (computer science) business SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production |
| Zdroj: | Teerioja, N, Moliis, K, Kuvaja, E, Ollikainen, M, Punkkinen, H & Merta, E 2012, ' Pneumatic vs. door-to-door waste collection systems in existing urban areas : A comparison of economic performance ', Waste Management, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1782-1791 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2012.05.027 |
| ISSN: | 1879-2456 0956-053X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.05.027 |
| Popis: | Pneumatic waste collection systems are becoming increasingly popular in new urban residential areas, and an attractive alternative to conventional vehicle-operated municipal solid waste (MSW) collection also in ready-built urban areas. How well pneumatic systems perform in ready-built areas is, however, an unexplored topic. In this paper, we analyze how a hypothetical stationary pneumatic waste collection system compares economically to a traditional vehicle-operated door-to-door collection system in an existing, densely populated urban area. Both pneumatic and door-to-door collection systems face disadvantages in such areas. While buildings and fixed city infrastructure increase the installation costs of a pneumatic system in existing residential areas, the limited space for waste transportation vehicles and containers cause problems for vehicle-operated waste collection systems. The method used for analyzing the cost effects of the compared waste collection systems in our case study takes into account also monetized environmental effects of both waste collection systems. As a result, we find that the door-to-door collection system is economically almost six times more superior. The dominant cost factor in the analysis is the large investment cost of the pneumatic system. The economic value of land is an important variable, as it is able to reverse the results, if the value of land saved with a pneumatic system is sufficiently high. |
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