Municipal Solid Waste Collection System Evaluation and Design

Course main Topics:

• Types, characteristics and composition of solid waste.
• Principles of collection system planning.
• Types of collection equipment.
• Urban form and waste collection
• Traffic and waste collection
• Best practices for evaluation of existing collection system.
• Optimizing location of bins.
• Optimizing collection routes.
• Optimizing collection and transfer.
• Waiting and set-up times.
• Scheduling vehicle maintenance, distributing and garaging.
• Record keeping.
• Computer applications.
• Action planning.