Guía para la caracterización y cuantificación de residuos sólidos.

Alayón, E.

The characterization of solid waste is an important basic stage in the management of solid waste, and important within its own management, since it seeks to identify sources, quantities and variations over time as well as the observation and quality of the products. The problem is there are a few methods only to characterize municipal and urban solid waste, circumstance that is even more complex. Therefore, it is proposed that this guide presents a method to characterize and quantify in a simpler and more effective way not only municipal and urban solid waste, but also institutional, commercial and even farm waste, i.e. to know the individual components that constitute the flow of waste, usually based on percentage by weight. Once the distribution of the components is known, they are quantified in order to obtain the production per person, also called per capita production (ppc) whose units are Kg/hb.day. Per capita production is particularly stratified in America, so that the higher the socioeconomic stratum of a country, municipality or neighborhood, the greater the waste generation. In Colombia, the capital cities have 6 strata, and the municipalities generally 3, being the 1 the lowest. It is concluded that for the quantitative method presented in this guide, when the result of the ppc obtained by calculations coincides with the ppc of the actual stratum in which the work is being worked, it confirms that the quantification was well realized and therefore the characterization is also correct.

AMERICA; COLOMBIA; SOLID waste management; SOLID waste; AGRICULTURAL wastes; CAPITAL cities

Inventum. Ingenieria, Tecnologia e Investigacion, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 29, p76

1909-2520

Academic Journal

10.26620/uniminuto.inventum.15.29.2020.76-94