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Solid Waste Management SIA
Composition of Municipal Solid Waste from selected
Urban Structures in Romania
In the framework of the increasing concern about the
environmental protection in Romania in year 2007 was
initiated a cooperation between the environmental ministries
Umwelt Ministerium Baden Württemberg and
Ministerul Mediului Romania. This cooperation was
meant to support Romania in finding the appropriate
solutions for the treatment of municipal solid waste.
The first step was to define the composition of the municipal
solid waste from Romania. In this scope, at the
request of Umwelt Ministerium Baden Württemberg,
the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality
and Solid Waste Management carried on the research
project in collaboration with “Politehnica” Timisoara
University, as well as Retim (Timisoara) and Goscom
(Vaslui).
In agreement with National Environmental Protection
Agency from Romania there were selected two locations
with different economic development levels, Timisoara
a city with a dynamic development and low
unemployment rates and Vaslui, a city with a precarious
economical situation and high unemployment
rates. Due to financial reasons Vaslui could not continue
participating in the project. Therefore the sorting
Sorting waste in Timisoara
campaigns were organized only in Timisoara, in two
different seasons (summer and autumn).
In Timisoara were analyzed the content of the container
from the conventional collection system as well as
the “wet container” from a new introduced collection
system, in which the “wet container” is meant for the
residual waste while the “dried container” for the recyclable
materials. The samples were collected from
residential areas with well determined features and
analyzed on the basis of the methods described by the
Guidelines Brandenburg.
Comparison Between 1-Container and 2-Containers Systems [Mass.-%-MS]
Organic waste
Organic waste (