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General findings

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General findings

On this page general findings will be published

The group

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Separation

  • Recycling islands & waste separation containers

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  • Urban context V.S. Rural context 

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  • Factors influencing waste separation

  1. Awareness, Education, Infrastructure 

  2. Labelling: color coding & experiment

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Collection & transportation

  • Urban context V.S. Rural context

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  • Collection frequency

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  • Same truck collects all types of waste

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Disposal

  • Formal landfill

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  • Informal waste disposal sites

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  • Littering

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  • Waste flow diagram

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Garden waste

  • Separation

  1. Separated in piles or plastic bags outside the houses

  2. Mixed waste bin

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  • Collection

  1. Collected by different trucks

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  • Disposal

  1. Designated place next to the formal landfill

  2. Informal landfill, composting, burning

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Garden waste treatment 

technologies

  • Briquetting

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  • Carbonization of briquettes

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  • Composting 

Sustainability assessment

  • Defining important criteria

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  • Assigning performance of each technology

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  • Weighing of criteria by stakeholders

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  • Multi Criteria Analysis

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General Recommendations

  • Education programs for schools and the citizens in different neighborhoods

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  • Link a good cause campaign to separation practices as  done with bottle cap separation

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  • Briquetting as a treatment of garden waste

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  • Increase the number of containers for waste separation with color coded and clearly labelled

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  • More recycling islands to be spread throughout Vršac, with consistency of the color, type and the label of the container

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  • Specialized trucks to collect each type of waste separately

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Final report

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