Abstract The organic fraction of municipal solid wastes in Southeast Asia, which has a high moisture content, accounts for a large proportion of total waste. Local governments need to pay adequate attention to the composition of wastes to determine alternative waste management technologies. This study proposed the use of a triangle diagram to describe changes in proximate composition and rates of successful source separation of municipal solid waste and to identify technical challenges about alternative waste management technologies such as incineration, composting, and refusederived fuel production based on physical and proximate composition analysis of household waste sampled in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a case study. The analysis indicated the effectiveness of different types of source separation as well as different levels of successful achievement of source separation as an adjustment mechanism for the proximate composition of waste. Proper categorization of wastes for source separation is necessary for the appropriate use of alternative waste management technologies. The results showed that, at a source separation rate of just greater than 0.52 in a threeway separation scheme, the waste separated as combustible waste would be suitable for incineration with energy recovery. Based on welldesigned scheme
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Proximate composition of household waste and applicability
of waste management technologies by source separation in Hanoi,
Vietnam
Kosuke Kawai• Luong Thi Mai Huong•
Masato Yamada•Masahiro Osako
Received: 25 January 2014 / Accepted: 21 December 2014 / Published online: 1 January 2015
Ó Springer Japan 2014
Abstract The organic fraction of municipal solid wastes
in Southeast Asia, which has a high moisture content,
accounts for a large proportion of total waste Local
governments need to pay adequate attention to the
com-position of wastes to determine alternative waste
man-agement technologies This study proposed the use of a
triangle diagram to describe changes in proximate
com-position and rates of successful source separation of
municipal solid waste and to identify technical challenges
about alternative waste management technologies such as
incineration, composting, and refuse-derived fuel
produc-tion based on physical and proximate composiproduc-tion
ana-lysis of household waste sampled in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a
case study The analysis indicated the effectiveness of
different types of source separation as well as different
levels of successful achievement of source separation as
an adjustment mechanism for the proximate composition
of waste Proper categorization of wastes for source
sep-aration is necessary for the appropriate use of alternative
waste management technologies The results showed that,
at a source separation rate of just greater than 0.52 in a
three-way separation scheme, the waste separated as
combustible waste would be suitable for incineration with
energy recovery Based on well-designed schemes of
source separation, alternative waste management tech-nologies can be applied
Keywords Household waste Source separation Waste management technology Proximate composition Developing country
Introduction
In Southeast Asia, municipal solid waste is usually col-lected without source separation or pre-treatment and transported directly to landfills or open dumping sites, most
of which are rarely technically managed because of budget constraints [1] Heavy rainfall, combined with poor man-agement of disposal sites, allows a great deal of untreated leachate to leak into the aquatic environment near the sites Moreover, poor municipal solid waste management results
in methane emissions, which are generated in the process
of biodegradation of organic waste in the tropical climate
of Southeast Asia and have a greenhouse effect about 21 times greater than that of carbon dioxide Local govern-ments in Southeast Asian countries have struggled to extend the lifespan of current disposal sites and to secure new ones as the amount of waste collected has increased dramatically because of rapid population and economic growth in urban areas
Various life cycle assessment (LCA) models have evaluated the environmental performance of municipal solid waste management facilities and clarified the disad-vantages of poorly managed landfills as compared with alternative waste management technologies [2, 3] Alter-native waste management technologies such as incinera-tion, composting and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) production can reduce the volume of municipal solid waste to be
K Kawai ( &) M Yamada M Osako
Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management Research,
National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
e-mail: kawai.kosuke@nies.go.jp
L T M Huong
Institute for Urban Environment and Industry of Vietnam,
56/221, De La Thanh, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam
DOI 10.1007/s10163-014-0348-5
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electricity if the heating value of the wastes is sufficient,
composting can produce organic fertilizers that can
sub-stitute for chemical fertilizers and RDF can subsub-stitute for
natural resources consumed as fuel [4] With some
exceptions such as the Phuket treatment facility in Thailand
[5] and others in Singapore [6,7], large-scale incineration
facilities for municipal solid waste management are rare in
Southeast Asia, although some major cities have recently
begun to consider installing them [8, 9] Composting or
aerobic biological treatment has been applied at the
com-munity and neighborhood level as well as at the city level
as a component of a mechanical biological treatment
(MBT) system [10, 11] The Bangkok Metropolitan
Administration in Thailand has also started producing RDF
as a component of MBT [12]
Local governments face many difficulties when
replac-ing landfills with alternative waste management
technolo-gies because of technical constraints, and even if
alternatives can be implemented, landfills cannot be entirely
replaced because remaining residues will still need to be
landfilled The organic fraction contains high moisture
content and accounts for a large proportion of municipal
solid waste in Southeast Asia [13–16] The high moisture
content may encumber the operation of waste management
technologies and require additional fuel and materials or
pre-treatment processing [17] Previous LCA studies [5,
18–20] that have evaluated the environmental performance
of municipal solid waste management systems employing
alternative waste management technologies in Southeast
Asia assumed that the alternative technologies were
appli-cable, without any consideration of basic qualitative
parameters for operation of technologies, for example, the
proximate composition of the waste (moisture, volatile, and
ash contents) Local governments in Southeast Asia need to
pay adequate attention to the characteristics of their
muni-cipal solid waste to determine whether alternative waste
management technologies are appropriate for the waste
This study proposed the use of a triangle diagram to
confirm whether the current proximate composition of
municipal solid waste would be suitable for incineration,
composting and RDF production by using physical and
proximate composition analyses of household waste in
Hanoi, Vietnam, as a case study This study also identified
technical challenges of municipal solid waste management,
showing the ranges of change in proximate composition on
triangle diagrams as related to varying levels of successful
achievement of three types of source separation of
house-hold waste Note that this study did not account for other
relevant aspects, such as the chemical properties of waste
and financial feasibility, which are also important in
dis-cussions regarding the adoption of new waste management
systems in developing countries
Materials and methods Physical and proximate composition analysis Household waste was sampled from four urban districts (Ba Dinh, Hoan Kiem, Dong Da, and Hai Ba Trung dis-tricts; Fig.1) in Hanoi We selected eight collection points
of municipal solid waste from the four districts (two per district) on a random basis and requested the cooperation of community leaders and municipal solid waste collection workers in sampling waste from households Discarded household waste is collected daily in the evening in Hanoi, and we sampled household waste from the eight collection points every evening from 17:00 to 19:00 for 8 days from
25 November to 3 December 2011 except for 1 December, when sampling was not conducted because of rain A total
of 828 kg of waste was collected from 339 households (1252 residents), which was equivalent to approximately 0.12 % of the population in the four districts (1,055,800 residents [21]) Each day, the samples were immediately transported to a roofed area at the Cau Dien Composting Site located 10 km west of the center of Hanoi city Ideally, the physical composition analysis should be conducted promptly after sampling because the moisture content of wet wastes such as food waste is highly likely to leach into other types of wastes such as paper However, waste samples were stored for a half day because of practical limitations involved with doing the work at night The physical composition analysis was therefore conducted every morning from 8:00 to 10:00 on the previous day’s
10 km Vietnam
Hanoi
Dong Da
Ba Dinh Hoan Kiem
Hai Ba Trung Cau Dien composting site
Nam Son landfill site
Urban districts
Fig 1 Map of Hanoi, Vietnam
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samples into 16 physical categories of waste: paper, plastic,
glass, and metals as salable waste; and food, garden, paper,
plastic, wood, textiles, rubber and leather, glass, metals,
coal ash, ceramics, and other materials as unsalable waste
Coal ash is the residue from burning coal briquettes for
cooking This is a commonly used fuel source in Hanoi
[22], but it is not a common characteristic of household
waste in other Southeast Asian countries In some
coun-tries, coal ash is classified as a hazardous waste because of
its relatively high heavy metal content Paper, plastics,
glass, and metals are usually regarded to be salable
resources, but very wet or dirty paper products, broken
glass, plastic bags, and greasy aluminum foil were
cate-gorized as unsalable The proportion of salable waste to
total waste in the samples was probably lower than the
actual proportion because only waste that was certain to
have a market value was regarded as salable in this study,
and some salable waste may have been miscategorized as
unsalable After the waste samples had been sorted into the
16 categories, they were weighed with a digital scale
(CJ-8200, Shinko Denshi Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with a
minimum reading of 0.1 g The weights were verified to
detect data entry errors by comparing the total weight
before and after sorting
Proximate composition data (data on moisture, volatile,
and ash contents) of all categories of waste samples were
obtained twice during the 8-day sampling period, and the
average values of each waste category served as a basis of
estimation of changes in proximate composition of
household waste after source separation The following
procedure was used to analyze proximate composition
Samples of each of the 15 waste types (excluding ‘‘other’’)
were reduced to approximately 100 g each by the conical
quartering method The reduced sub-samples were dried in
a laboratory drier at 85°C for 3 days to measure the
moisture content Although an authorized method in Japan
[23] states that samples should be dried at 105°C for
moisture content measurements, we used 85°C to prevent
the plastic sample from melting The dried samples were
burned at 800°C for 2 h in an incinerator to measure
volatile (i.e., combustible) and ash contents We did not
estimate the volatile content of glass, metals, and ceramics,
which were categorized as non-combustible The average
proximate composition of all 11 unsalable waste samples
was substituted for that of the ‘‘other’’ category
Moisture, volatile, and ash contents of household waste
were calculated with Eqs.1,2and3, respectively
WH¼X Wi Mi
VH¼X Vi Mi
AH¼X Ai Mi
where WHis moisture content of household waste (%), Wi
is moisture content of waste category i (%), Miis physical composition of waste category i (%), VHis volatile content
of household waste (%), Vi is volatile content of waste category i (%), AHis ash content of household waste (%), and Aiis ash content of waste category i (%)
We detected a notable transfer of water from food waste
to unsalable paper and plastic waste because it took at least
a half day to initiate the analysis of the moisture content of the wastes after sampling To simulate the original moisture content of the wastes before the water transfer resulting from the delay, we adjusted the moisture content of unsal-able paper and plastic waste to match those of salunsal-able ones, which were found to contain much less moisture The moisture content of food waste was then correspondingly increased The ratios between volatile and ash content in food and unsalable paper and plastic waste were maintained
at the same values before and after the adjustment Some parameters include uncertainties as a result of various fac-tors The effects caused by these uncertainties should be considered in our analysis In particular, moisture content in household waste plays a significant role when determining the applicability of waste management technologies Therefore, in the presentation of results, uncertainty in moisture content was shown as a range when visualizing the ranges of change in proximate composition of household waste depending on achievement levels of source separa-tion Uncertainty of moisture content of all waste categories ranged from -5 to 5 % of the average measured value, and proximate composition based on the uncertainty was cal-culated with Eqs 4,5, and6, respectively:
WHU¼X Wi 1 Uð Þ Mi
VHU¼X 100 Wif 1 Uð Þg Vi Mi
AHU¼X 100 Wif 1 Uð Þg Ai Mi
where WHUis moisture content of household waste based on uncertainty (%), U is the uncertainty of moisture content for all waste categories, VHU is volatile content of household waste based on uncertainty (%), and AHUis ash content of household waste based on uncertainty (%) The uncertainty
of moisture content changes at the same time for all cate-gories of waste within a defined range (U 0:05)
Scenarios and achievement rate of source separation Source separation of household waste is regarded as a fundamental policy of waste management in Japan Each
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separation in line with local policies and conditions
Municipalities have depended largely on incineration
technology for municipal solid waste management; almost
all municipalities have combustible waste (usually
including food waste) as a category of source separation In
addition to combustible waste, containers and packaging
wastes such as cardboard, beverage bottles, and aluminum
cans are also often collected separately Less commonly,
some municipalities collect food waste separately for
composting or anaerobic digestion Because categories of
source separation in Japan vary from municipality to
municipality, new residents may initially be confused at the
sometimes complicated and unique categories of source
separation
In this study, we propose three source separation
sce-narios, all of which are designed to be easy to understand
In scenario I, household waste was separated into two
types: combustible waste for incineration or RDF
produc-tion and non-combustible waste for landfilling In scenario
II, household waste was also separated into two types:
biodegradable waste for composting and
non-biodegrad-able waste for incineration or landfilling In scenario III,
household waste was separated into three types:
combus-tible waste for incineration or RDF production,
non-com-bustible waste for landfilling, and biodegradable waste for
composting
Because it would be almost impossible in practice for all
people to perfectly separate their household waste, we
defined the ‘‘achievement rate of source separation’’ as the
proportion of the actual separation rate (x) When
house-hold waste is separated into two types (A and B;
corre-sponding to scenarios I and II), some of the waste
categorized as A will be appropriately separated as A (x),
but some will be inappropriately separated as B (1 x)
(Fig.2) In scenarios I and II, the achievement rate was
assumed to range from 0.5 to 1.0, and an achievement rate
of 0.5 implies that sorting is random and that waste
sepa-rated as A will be of the same quality as waste sepasepa-rated as
B An achievement rate of 0.7 in scenario I, for example,
represents the situation in which 0.7 of combustible waste
by weight is appropriately separated as combustible waste,
and the remaining 0.3 by weight is incorrectly included as
non-combustible waste An achievement rate of 1.0 means
that all household waste is perfectly separated When
household waste is separated into three types (A, B, and C;
corresponding to scenario III), we assumed that the rate of
inappropriate separation was ð1 xÞ 0:5 (Fig.3) In
scenario III, the achievement rate was assumed to range
from 0.33 to 1.0, and an achievement rate of 0.33 implies
that sorting is random and that waste separated as A will be
of the same quality as waste separated as B and C The
achievement rates of source separation of waste
categorized as A, B, and C were set as a single parameter to simplify the case study
Taking into account the uncertainty in the measurements
of moisture content, the ranges of change in the proximate composition shown on the triangle diagrams in the results represent achievement rates ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 in scenarios I and II and from 0.33 to 1.0 in scenario III In Japan, almost all municipalities treat food and garden waste at incineration plants Food and garden waste were, therefore, categorized as combustible waste in scenario I following the waste management practice in Japan and as biodegradable waste in scenarios II and III (Table1) Paper
Waste categorized as B Waste categorized as A
Separated
as B
Separated
as A
Separated appropriately Separated inappropriately
Fig 2 Achievement rate of source separation (x) for two waste categories to be separated
Waste categorized as C Waste categorized as A
Separated
as C
Separated
as A
Waste categorized as B
Separated
as B
Separated appropriately Separated inappropriately
Fig 3 Achievement rate of source separation (x) for three waste categories to be separated
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waste in scenarios II and III because of the much longer
time period required for biodegradation as compared with
food and garden waste
Proximate composition boundaries
Each waste management technology has application limits
depending on the proximate composition of the particular
type of waste [24] This study adopted the range limits of
Tanaka et al [25] as follows
Equation7 shows the ranges of volatile content and
moisture content for the self-sustaining combustion of
waste (Fig.4), and Eq.8 shows the ranges of them for
energy recovery by incineration (Fig.5):
3352\HL ¼ 210 Vð Þ 25 Wð Þ; ð7Þ
where HL is lower heating value (kJ kg-1), V is volatile
content (%), and W is moisture content (%)
Equation9shows the range of the moisture content that
allows sufficient oxygen and water supply for aerobic
digestion for composting, and Eq.10 shows the
relation-ship between moisture and volatile content that allows
moisture to evaporate with aerobic metabolic heat (Fig.6):
and
Equation11 shows the moisture content boundary for
RDF production at which it is not necessary to install a
pre-treatment facility for drying waste, and Eq.12shows the
volatile content boundary at which waste is available as
fuel above 12,570 kJ kg-1of higher heating value (Fig.7)
and
Equation13 shows the moisture content boundary for truck unloading, moving heavy equipment, and covering soil during landfilling (Fig.8):
Results and discussion Physical and proximate composition Food waste was the largest component of household waste, accounting for 57.3 % of total waste; it also had the highest moisture content (76.1 %; Table2) The average moisture, volatile, and ash contents for the household waste collected were 57.7, 24.1, and 18.2 %, respectively Coal ash
Table 1 Types and categories of household waste based on scenarios of source separation
Food Garden Paper Plastic Wood Textiles Rubber
and leather
Glass Metals Coal
ash
Ceramics Other
materials
4 Included
80 60 40 20 0
100
Volatile (%)
Application range of incineration
3352 < HL(kJ kg-1)
Fig 4 Application range of incineration for varying sets of proxi-mate composition HL is lower heating value The shaded area indicates the area, where the technology is feasible given the proximate conditions
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was categorized as non-combustible waste in consideration
of its relatively low volatile content (6.7 %) and high ash
content (81.1 %) This analysis indicated that the use of
coal briquettes for cooking had a considerable effect on the
physical and proximate composition of household waste in
Hanoi However, coal briquettes are expected to be
replaced in the near future by propane gas as living
con-ditions improve In that case, a much smaller amount of
coal ash would be generated by households The moisture
content of paper and plastics sorted as unsalable waste
exceeded 50 %, most likely because of transfer of moisture
content from food waste Salable waste accounted for only 3.6 % of the total, and the moisture content of the paper and plastics sorted as salable waste was much lower, less than 10 % in each case As stated previously, the actual proportion of salable waste may have been higher because the sorting criteria of physical composition analysis were very conservative Household hazardous wastes such as syringes, fluorescent lamps, and dry-cell batteries were observed during the physical composition analysis, but the proportion was very small and the items were included in the appropriate category (i.e., syringes, plastic; fluorescent lamps, glass; and dry-cell batteries, metal)
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%)
Application range of
incineration with
energy recovery
6285 < HL (kJ kg -1)
Fig 5 Application range of incineration with energy recovery for
varying sets of proximate composition HLis lower heating value The
shaded area indicates the area, where the technology is feasible given
the proximate conditions
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%)
Application range
of composting
Fig 6 Application range of composting for varying sets of proximate
composition The shaded area indicates the area where the
technol-ogy is feasible given the proximate conditions
80 60 40 20 0
100
Volatile (%)
Application range
of RDF production
Fig 7 Application range of RDF production for varying sets of proximate composition The shaded area indicates the area where the technology is feasible given the proximate conditions
80 60 40 20 0
100
Volatile (%)
Application range of landfilling
Fig 8 Application range of landfilling for varying sets of proximate composition The shaded area indicates the area where the technol-ogy is feasible given the proximate conditions
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food, unsalable paper, and plastic waste simulating the
original composition before the transfer of water from food
waste to the paper and plastic waste The moisture content
of food waste increased from 76.1 to 88.0 % corresponding
with the adjustment of the moisture contents of unsalable
paper and plastic waste from 55.2 to 8.3 % and 53.4 to
7.3 %, respectively These adjusted values were utilized for
estimating the changes in proximate composition of
household waste in line with source separation
achieve-ment as discussed in the next section
Scenarios and changes in proximate composition
The lower heating value of household waste in Hanoi was
estimated to be 3591 kJ kg-1 by Eq.7, which is barely
greater than the level necessary for self-sustaining
com-bustion (Fig.9) The high proportion of food waste with its
high moisture content reduced the lower heating value
Figure9illustrates that additional drying would be
neces-sary to manage current household waste in Hanoi at
incineration plants with energy recovery and at RDF pro-duction plants
Figure10 shows the ranges of change in proximate composition of household waste according to achievement rate of source separation for scenario I (household waste was separated into combustible and non-combustible waste) Moisture and volatile content of the waste sepa-rated as combustible waste showed little change as the achievement rate increased, and the lower heating value of the combustible waste peaked at 3571–4774 kJ kg-1when the achievement rate was set at 1.0 Source separation of
Table 2 Physical and
proximate composition of
household waste sampled in
Hanoi (%)
Salable
Unsalable
Table 3 Adjusted proximate composition of food, and unsalable
paper and plastic waste (%)
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%)
Fig 9 Current proximate composition of household waste in Hanoi (filled diamond) The solid lines inside the triangle diagram reflect the boundaries of respective waste management technologies
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waste, as presented in scenario I, would not be effective in
increasing the heating value of the waste Furthermore, this
scenario suggests that food and garden waste, which have a
high moisture content, should not be included in the waste
to be incinerated given the current waste composition in
Hanoi In addition, the volatile content of the coal ash
prevents the volatile content of the waste separated as
non-combustible waste from reaching zero
The triangle diagram for scenario II (household waste
was separated into biodegradable and non-biodegradable
waste, Fig.11) shows that the applicability of incineration
of the waste separated as non-biodegradable waste rises
with increases in the achievement rate Because the
mois-ture content of the waste separated as biodegradable waste
increased as the achievement rate increased, it would be
necessary to add water-conditioning agents such as rice
husks and rice straw to the composting process to adjust the
moisture content of the waste Fortunately, it would be
relatively easy to secure these materials in Vietnam, which
is a major producer of rice Although we categorized paper
and wood waste as non-biodegradable waste in this study,
they are actually biodegradable in the long term and absorb
moisture, prevent odors under anaerobic conditions, and
increase air circulation [4] To successfully apply
inciner-ation with energy recovery, the achievement rate needs to
be greater than 0.74 for the waste separated as
non-bio-degradable waste The maximum lower heating value of
the waste separated as non-biodegradable waste was
9600–9763 kJ kg-1 at an achievement rate of 1.0 Even
with an achievement rate of 1.0, the volatile content of the
waste separated as non-biodegradable waste did not meet the criteria for RDF production
Figure12 shows the triangle diagram for scenario III (household waste was separated into combustible, non-combustible, and biodegradable waste) The ranges of change in the proximate composition of the waste separated
as combustible waste were ideally distributed to be treated
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%)
0.5
1.0
1.0 0.5
Separated as combustible waste Separated as non-combustible waste
Fig 10 Range of changes in proximate composition of household
waste at various achievement rates of source separation in scenario I
(shaded areas) The lines inside shaded areas reflect proximate
composition at 0.1 intervals of achievement rates from 0.5 to 1.0
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%) Separated as biodegradable waste Separated as non-biodegradable waste
0.5
1.0
0.5
1.0
Fig 11 Range of changes in proximate composition of household waste at various achievement rates of source separation in scenario II (shaded areas) The lines inside shaded areas reflect proximate composition at 0.1 intervals of achievement rates from 0.5 to 1.0
80
60
40
20
0
100
Volatile (%)
Separated as non-combustible waste Separated as biodegradable waste Separated as combustible waste
0.5
1.0
0.5 1.0
1.0 0.5
Fig 12 Range of changes in proximate composition of household waste at various achievement rates of source separation in scenario III (shaded areas) The lines inside shaded areas reflect proximate composition at an achievement rate of 0.33 and at 0.1 intervals of achievement rates from 0.4 to 1.0
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content decreased and the amount of volatile matter
increased To successfully apply incineration with energy
recovery, the achievement rate needs to be just greater than
0.52 for the waste separated as combustible waste When the
achievement rate exceeded 0.92, the waste separated as
combustible waste could be applied for RDF production The
maximum lower heating value of the waste separated as
combustible waste was 14,498–14,729 kJ kg-1 at an
achievement rate of 1.0
Conclusion
This study analyzed the effect of source separation on
changes in proximate composition of household waste in
Hanoi, Vietnam, and on the applicability of alternative
waste management technologies with triangle diagrams
Proper categorization of wastes for source separation is
necessary if alternative waste management technologies
are to be used successfully The results showed that the
two-way separation scheme categorizing household waste
into biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste (scenario
II) was more effective to apply for incineration with energy
recovery than that of the scheme categorizing household
waste into combustible and non-combustible waste
(sce-nario I) At a source separation rate of just greater than 0.52
in the three-way separation scheme presented in scenario
III, the waste separated as combustible waste would be
suitable for incineration with energy recovery; moreover,
the waste could be applied for RDF production with an
achievement rate of greater than 0.92 Therefore,
well-designed source separation schemes should be an important
component of alternative waste management technologies
This study focused only on the proximate composition
to evaluate the applicability of alternative waste
manage-ment technologies to landfilling, but other aspects should
also be studied to strengthen the utility of the analytical
tool After composting and RDF production, the processed
wastes will be sold and distributed as secondary resources
To produce reliable and safe products, wastes input in the
processes must meet chemical criteria, such as pH and
concentration of heavy metals and chloride [26] Financial
feasibility is especially important in discussions regarding
the adoption of new waste management systems in
devel-oping countries
The triangle diagram allows the visualization of the
proximate composition of separated wastes and can
con-tribute to decision-making to improve municipal solid
waste management Any local government can apply this
type of analysis if they have data on the physical and
proximate composition of waste in their local areas
Appropriate methods for continuously recording data on
the physical and proximate composition would make the use of the triangle diagram even more reliable Periodic sampling at regular intervals must be done carefully to be representative of local wastes and result in reliable com-position data Historical data can aid in estimating a rea-sonable range of waste composition
Local governments will not be able to implement suc-cessful source separation systems without the cooperation
of their residents Although pilot-scale source separation systems have been attempted in Hangzhou in China [27], Hanoi in Vietnam [28] and Hatyai in Thailand [29], city-scale systems have rarely been established in developing countries Local governments in these countries have to develop effective strategies to involve residents in the source separation systems not simply by importing systems that have already been applied in developed countries, but
by taking into consideration local factors such as customs, economic conditions, culture and religion
Acknowledgments We sincerely thank Nguyen Huu Dung of the Institute for Urban Environment and Industry of Vietnam and all the staff of the International Cooperation Department, Hanoi Urban Environment Company for supporting this study We express our sincere and profound gratitude to the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund by the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan.
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