Transports in Waste Management |
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Logistics and ecological assessment |
Transports traditionally play an important role in waste management. With the introduction of a defined waste disposal system and the task of disposing waste in each individual community, but particularly with the introduction of material flow management, the various waste streams must be transported over greater distances to be recycled or disposed of. The distances are becoming even greater now that the sorting plants and final treatment plants (recovery and disposal plants) are more and more concentrated in fewer locations. As untreated municipal solid waste is no longer being deposited at landfills since June 2005, residual waste is often being disposed of at a few central locations. Following the fundamental principles of waste management by placing the order of importance on avoidance – recovery – disposal, the question regarding waste transports must be posed as to how these can be prevented or at least reduced. The need for transport is strongly influenced depending on where the waste management facilities are situated. The remaining transports then need to be analysed in a further step for their optimisation possibilities. The ecological evaluation of the transports and the derived optimisation potentials can make use of the extensive data collected by IFEU within the framework of TREMOD for road haulage, rail transports as well as shipping. Almost all the work we do at IFEU involving the analyses of waste management concepts and evaluations takes the assessment of transports into consideration. |
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Transports in waste management systems mainly include the waste collection systems and the subsequent transport of waste to treatment facilities. How the waste is transported to the facility depends on various factors (distance, available infrastructure, etc.). Projects conducted at IFEU look at finding solutions to each individual case for transport systems, as well as concentrating on the overall situation transport flow caused by the closed substance cycle waste management activities in regard to the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act (KrW-/AbfG). An integral part of these investigations was e.g. deriving a simplified possibility for evaluation of alternative transport systems for the actual planning of routes and collection tours for tool solutions (Optimised transport in closed substance cycle waste management) |
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Contact |
Florian Knappe (06221-4767-26; florian.knappe@ifeu.de) |
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