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- Title
Municipal Solid Waste and Utility Consumption in Taiwan.
- Authors
Sung, Hsin-Chen; Sheu, Yiong-Shing; Yang, Bing-Yuan; Ko, Chun-Han
- Abstract
In Taiwan, 3,130,735 t of refuse for disposal and 4,113,808 t of recycled recyclable waste were generated in 2017. The government of Taiwan has been actively promoting a resource recycling program since July 1998. To pursue sustainability and locate waste minimization opportunities, the correlation between utility consumption and population and the quantity of refuse and recyclable waste from municipalities in Taiwan was studied. There are six special municipalities and 16 cities and counties covering a great variety of urbanization and settlement characteristics, such as registered populations, electricity, and water consumption. The above parameters of the municipalities were correlated with the quantities of refuse and recycled urban waste. Residential electricity consumption, overall population, and business electricity consumption were found to be major parameters correlating the generation of refuse and recycled urban waste. Due to their higher levels of business activities, the waste generation behaviours of these six special municipalities are more diverse than those of the 16 municipalities. Due to the discrepancy of the registered population system, the utility consumption values within administrative boundaries can better predict municipal solid waste, (MSW) generation than utility consumption at a per capita. Utility consumption within administrative boundaries is more convenient as a measure to predict refuse and recycled urban waste than other complex social–economic indicators.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; SOLID waste; WASTE management; ELECTRIC power consumption; WASTE recycling; WATER consumption; WASTE minimization
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2020, Vol 12, Issue 8, p3425
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su12083425