Modelling of Waste Separation Scenarios and Impact on Energy Recovery Potential

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Efforts to save the environment and primary resources have led to the release of a Circular Economy Package by EU. One of the basic principles is to turn waste into raw material and use the potential hidden in waste. For a sustainable waste management system, it is necessary to build an adequate infrastructure for material recovery and energy recovery of waste. Estimation of waste production and composition is a key input for planning treatment capacities in regional detail. With the regard to dynamic development of waste management it is likely that the waste produced will be affected by interventions in the future. This aspect is modelled using scenarios. The uniqueness of the presented modelling approach is mainly in the use of the properties of the hierarchical data structure, the coherence of the process at the national and regional levels needs to be ensured. Potential for increasing waste separation is identified, it is assumed that all municipalities contribute to increasing the separation efficiency until the separation potential is fulfilled. The results will be useful in waste management planning at the state level and infrastructure planning taking into account local potential for material and energy recovery. The scenario modelling is presented on waste production in the Czech Republic.

Efforts to save the environment and primary resources have led to the release of a Circular Economy Package by EU. One of the basic principles is to turn waste into raw material and use the potential hidden in waste. For a sustainable waste management system, it is necessary to build an adequate infrastructure for material recovery and energy recovery of waste. Estimation of waste production and composition is a key input for planning treatment capacities in regional detail. With the regard to dynamic development of waste management it is likely that the waste produced will be affected by interventions in the future. This aspect is modelled using scenarios. The uniqueness of the presented modelling approach is mainly in the use of the properties of the hierarchical data structure, the coherence of the process at the national and regional levels needs to be ensured. Potential for increasing waste separation is identified, it is assumed that all municipalities contribute to increasing the separation efficiency until the separation potential is fulfilled. The results will be useful in waste management planning at the state level and infrastructure planning taking into account local potential for material and energy recovery. The scenario modelling is presented on waste production in the Czech Republic.

Energy recovery; Material recovery; Waste separation; Circular Economy Package; Mixed municipal waste; Bulky waste

02.04.2024

2718-5990

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