Waste Collection: Components of waste collection, waste collection containers, their characteristics, types, waste collection vehicles, collection frequency, collection route, transfer stations

1. Waste Collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of
solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill.

2. Components of Waste Collection
Currently, in India, source separation and collection of dry recyclables is fairly well
developed at the household level, commercial centers and institutional areas.

4. Waste Collection & Transport Methods

5. Waste Collection Containers: Characteristics and Types

6. Medical Waste Collection Containers

9. Waste Collection Vehicles

17. Waste Collection Frequency

18. For Hospitals
and
Pathology
Labs

19. Waste Collection Routes

20. Waste Collection Routes
Collection of waste can be route planned and optimized to minimize costs related to
the waste collection. When designing efficient waste collection routes, it is natural to
distinguish between the collection of residential waste from private households and
industrial waste.
Fixed frequency or collection on demand
Residential waste collection is often carried out with fixed frequencies for emptying.
Industrial waste, on the other hand, is characterized by having both tasks with fixed
frequencies and time windows and tasks that occur only when a business asks for
service.

21. Route planning for residential waste collection
A city has an area with 20,000 households who all need their garbage collected once a
week. Both the city and the operator have a great interest in the optimized route plans
and schedules that can ensure that the fleet of garbage trucks drive as few km and
minutes as possible.
To make those route plans, Rapidis has developed a special edition of Logistics
Planner called “High Density” that is capable of creating optimal routes for very large
address volumes. In practice, the software divides the area into routes limited by the
maximum working time allowed. Logistics Planner will also provide the best sequence
for each route. Special requirements like disallowing left turns or curb approach are
also handled by this edition of the route planning software.

22. Route planning for industrial waste collection
Bins and smaller container located at companies and institutions must be emptied on
either fixed days or when the company calls for service. The software Rapidis offer to
route plan such combinations of reoccurring tasks and new tasks will also make sure
that vehicle capacities and time windows are not violated.
Route planning for construction waste containers
When handling full size containers for construction waste, modus of operation may
be that a container is collected from one customer, then emptied at a landfill and
finally returned to the either the same customer or delivered to a new customer. The
many pickups, emptying and deliveries can be route planned and optimized with
Logitics Planner PD edition (Pickup and Delivery), for optimal routes, where the goal
is to do the task with as few vehicles as possible and that these vehicles run as few
minutes and km as possible.

23. Route planning for public waste bins
For every city, it is important that the city’s many waste bins will be emptied just at the
right time so that the city’s users can get rid of their waste in a proper way. The VRP
edition of Logistics Planner can provide the most optimal routes for emptying the city’s
waste bins regardless of whether the emptying is to be done at fixed frequencies or if
the bins are equipped with sensors reporting when emptying is required.
Route planning for special collections
Many municipalities and cities offer special collection of large waste items – sometimes
for free and sometimes for a fee. Here all collection tasks are on demand and route
planning can be complicated by the fact that different types of waste must be collected
by different vehicles; functionalities that are part of the VRP version of Logistics
Planner

24. Smart waste bins with sensors
Cities are increasingly adopting smart technologies and waste bins and containers are
equipped with sensors that automatically reports how much capacity is left and if the
bin should be emptied now, the next day or later. This leads to a very dynamic
scenario and the pool of bins to be emptied changes constantly. If a city, a municipality
or an operator should benefit from this new information provided by sensors the
benefit must arise from less costs and less environmental impact from collecting the
garbage – and this is exactly the outcome of daily optimization of waste collection
routes using Rapidis Logistics Planner.

25. Transfer Stations
A transfer station is a building or processing site for the
temporary deposition of waste. Transfer stations are often
used as places where local waste collection vehicles will
deposit their waste cargo prior to loading into larger vehicles.
Waste transfer stations are industrial facilities where
municipal solid waste, or MSW, is temporarily held and
sorted before heading to a landfill or waste-to-energy
plant. Garbage trucks that run city routes drop off their trash
here before it's loaded onto larger vehicles and shipped off.

27. Typical activities at the waste transfer station involved the
unloading of garbage trucks, pre-screening and removal of
inappropriate items such as automobile batteries, compacting
and then reloading onto larger vehicles, including trucks,
trains and barges to their final destination.
Key Benefits:
The transfer station is a key component of cost-effective solid waste
transportation. By transferring waste from local collection vehicles onto
larger trailers or other transport modes such as barge and rail, the cost of
transportation to distant disposal sites can be significantly reduced,
freeing collection-specific vehicles and crews to devote their time to
actual collection activities. Here are some of the main benefits:

28. • Provides fuel savings, reduction in road wear and
less air pollution due to fewer vehicles being on the
road
• Provides a trash and recyclable material drop-off
location for citizens
• Reduces total traffic congestion in the community by
transferring it onto larger vehicles
• Reduces total truck traffic and improves safety at the
landfill or waste-to-energy facility
• Provides the opportunity to screen incoming trash for
such purposes as removing hazardous waste or
recovering recyclables