Municipal solid waste composition: Sampling methodology, statistical analyses, and case study evaluation
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Municipal solid waste composition: sampling methodology, statistical analyses, and case study evaluation.
Sound waste management and optimisation of resource recovery require reliable data on solid waste generation and composition. In the absence of standardised and commonly accepted waste characterisation methodologies, various approaches have been reported in literature. This limits both comparability and applicability of the results. In this study, a waste sampling and sorting methodology for ef...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Waste Management
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0956-053X
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.11.009