Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management, 1st ed. 2019

This volume focuses on the collection of waste and waste streams as an integral aspect of sustainable waste management. The authors take economic models and behavioral studies into account to go beyond just descriptions of waste collections technologies and collection route design. Models and tools for sustainable waste collection are described in detail, and the authors provide a comprehensive, integrated methodology to design waste collection systems that reduce environmental impacts, are economically viable, and achieve buy-in and participation from target populations.

1. Introduction (missing)

2. Prevention, reduction, reuse: waste hierarchy steps before waste collection  (missing)

3. Waste collection: Technology status of waste collection systems 

4. Preparation for recycling, recycling, treatment and landfilling: waste hierarchy steps after waste collection  (missing)

5. Regulation and policy concerns  (missing)

6. Psychosocial perspectives  (missing)

7. Economic perspectives  (missing)

8. Environmental concerns 

II. Models and tools for waste collection

9.  Design and planning of waste collection system

11. Assessment and improvement

III. Sustainable solid waste collection: integrated perspective

12. Optimization in waste collection to reach sustainable waste management

13. Multi-criteria decision making in waste collection to reach sustainable waste management

14.  A sustainable reverse logistics system: a retrofit case

IV. Challenges and perspectives for sustainable waste management through waste collection

16. The evolution of waste collection

17. Trend analysis on sustainable waste collection  

18. Technical barriers and socioeconomic challenges

19. Future perspectives

Index

Ana Pires has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from FCT NOVA. She is an associate researcher at the MARE research center (Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences). Her research interests include the development of methodologies to assess and implement sustainable solid waste systems. She is dedicated to life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, cost-benefit analysis, and multi-criteria decision making. Other interests are related to consumer behavior, recycling behavior, and marine litter. 

Graça Martinho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at FCt NOVA and MARE associate member. She is responsible for lecturing waste management in FCT NOVA's environmental engineering master's and doctoral programs. Her main fields of research include planning and policy instruments for waste management, waste collection and recycling and social psychology applied to waste management.

Susana Rodrigues has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from FCT NOVA. She has expertized as a consultant and as a manager of waste collection system in several waste companies. She is an associate member of MARE.

Maria Isabel Gomes is Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics at FCT NOVA. Her research focuses on network design and planning, facility location, transportation and routing problems in both industry and waste collection contexts. She is an associate member of CMA research center (Center for Mathematics and Applications).

Focuses on how waste collection should be addressed and implemented within the framework of sustainable solid waste management

Addresses how to combine diverse tools such as life cycle assessment, carbon footprint assessment, and operations research

Takes a multidisciplinary perspective that emphasizes economic and behavioral aspects of waste collection