Influence of the Municipal Solid Waste Collection System on the Time Spent at a Collection Point: A Case Study
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Influence of the Municipal Solid Waste Collection System on the Time Spent at a Collection Point: A Case StudyFecha de publicación
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CARLOS, Mar, et al. Influence of the Municipal Solid Waste Collection System on the Time Spent at a Collection Point: A Case Study. Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, núm. 22, p. 6481Tipo de documento
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Waste management plans pay attention to municipal solid waste (MSW) collection systems.
It represents a significant portion of waste management as it involves a great economic cost and
environmental impact. For these ... [+]
Waste management plans pay attention to municipal solid waste (MSW) collection systems.
It represents a significant portion of waste management as it involves a great economic cost and
environmental impact. For these reasons, many researchers have studied the optimization of collection
routes, analyzing factors that make them more efficient and sustainable, for example, the overall
distance traveled and the time spent on the route. Collection times depend on factors such as the speed
of the truck, time at traffic lights or time spent on loading and unloading the waste. The loading and
unloading times play an important role in the measurement of the total time of the route. Moreover,
there is scarce information in the literature about measuring the real-time spent on the trip. All those
times are necessary to optimize the total route time. However, it is difficult to obtain this information
directly as it depends on parameters such as the type of truck. The aim of this work is to propose
a methodology to define all the times involved in the waste collection process. Once they are well
defined, they have to be measured in some cases or calculated in others. This works also presents
a case study to validate the proposed methodology with an extensive fieldwork to measure those
times that can’t be calculated in the waste collection process. The work presents the results of a study
of the time spent at a collection point in six MSW collection systems using different types of collection
trucks and bin designs. We have determined how the characteristics of the system affect the time
spent at a collection point. Additionally, the times for the six models have been established. Finally,
we have determined the influence of the collection model in the duration of the activity. Under certain
conditions, times can coincide even though the models are different. [-]
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