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Municipal solid waste unit production rates and estimation of the required number of waste storage containers in the municipality of AthensView Crossref metadata(active tab) <div id="edit-xml" class="form-item form-type-item"> <?xml version="1.0"?> <doi_batch version="4.4.1" xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1" xmlns:jats="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1 http://www.crossref.org/schemas/crossref4.4.1.xsd"><head><doi_batch_id>000699</doi_batch_id><timestamp>1715089434</timestamp><depositor><depositor_name>University of the Aegean</depositor_name><email_address>uoa@university.com</email_address></depositor><registrant>Global NEST Journal</registrant></head><body><journal><journal_metadata><full_title>Global NEST Journal</full_title><full_title>Global NEST: the international Journal</full_title><issn media_type="print">1790-7632</issn><issn media_type="electronic">2241-777X</issn></journal_metadata><journal_issue><titles><title>Issue 1</title></titles><publication_date><month>03</month><year>2024</year></publication_date><journal_volume><volume>9</volume></journal_volume><issue>1</issue></journal_issue><journal_article><titles><title>Municipal solid waste unit production rates and estimation of the required number of waste storage containers in the municipality of Athens</title></titles><abstract xmlns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1"><p>The Municipality of Athens (M.A.) currently comprises 7 municipal districts, 7 waste collection districts (WCD) and approximately 5800 residential blocks. Solid waste is collected daily on a 7 days per week basis. The M.A. comprises approximately 119 waste collection sub-districts (herein referred to as ‘collection programs’ or simply ‘programs’). Each ‘program’ consists of a number of adjacent residential blocks, whilst certain special programs include only central streets in Athens (e.g. Aharnon, Patision) or the commercial center of Athens. During the past years, each waste collection vehicle has been making 2 daily trips to the final disposal site in the Attica region, in Liosia. The above scheme is the basis on which daily collection of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the M.A. takes place. The actual residents at each residential block in Athens were based on the 2001 census. The coding of the National Statistical Agency was initially used and adjusted to the residential blocks’ coding used by the M.A. The residential blocks included in each collection program were precisely identified. Average unit waste production rates (UPRs) were estimated for each collection program using: • vehicle net weights data for February and July 2002 at the central Liosia landfill • actual population for each residential block in Athens (2001 census) and • number of residential blocks at each collection program The number of waste storage containers (WSC) at each residential block was estimated by accounting for a 1,1 m3 container volume, a 80% fill ratio and a 95 kg m-3 uncompacted waste density. As a result of the above, UPRs and the required number of WSC were estimated for each residential block, each collection program, each WCD and for the M.A. as a whole. Sunday has the smallest production of MSW during a week, whilst Tuesday is the day with the largest amount of MSW produced within a week. The average production rate for the M.A. was estimated to be 3,8 kg cap-1 d-1, ranging from 1,3 kg cap-1 d-1 (for district 6) to 8,9 kg cap-1 d-1 (for district 1). The relatively large UPR recorded for district 1 is attributed to the increased number of commercial stores (center of Athens) and due to the relatively small recorded actual population, since few apartment buildings exist in the center of Athens. The total number of waste storage containers required in the M.A. is approximately 16660, whilst the existing number is approximately 14580.</p></abstract><publication_date><month>04</month><day>29</day><year>2013</year></publication_date><pages><first_page>1</first_page><last_page>5</last_page></pages><publisher_item><identifier id_type="pii">367</identifier></publisher_item><doi_data><doi>10.30955/gnj.000367</doi><timestamp>1715089434</timestamp><resource>https://journal.gnest.org/publication/367</resource></doi_data></journal_article></journal></body></doi_batch> </div>
