Waste Management ToolsDuring the project a variety of user-friendly waste management tools, targeted to European local authorities, were developed by the Waste Solutions partners.  | The BRGM will keep a simulation tool (developed during the project AWAST) available to stakeholders for addressing any type of waste management system optimisation, from the plant level to the regional or national level.
| | | | | | | | Read the Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) handbook, produced by the Technical University of Dresden, to find out how to implement this instrument for reducing residual waste and increasing recycling.
| | As a result of the RELIEF project on local eco-procurement practices, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability offers the Procura+ Manual, a step-by-step guide to implementing sustainable procurement. |
AWAST - Aid in the Management of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Methods for a Global and Sustainable ApproachDuring the AWAST project a specific software and its documentation has been developed as a module of the more general simulation software, USIM PAC, commercialised by BRGM since 1989.
The product module is a simulation software to be used in municipal decision-making processes for evaluating waste management systems and scenarios. The software is based on best practices in process analysis and simulation, including energetic and economic aspects, of the whole management system: collection, transport, recycling, biological treatment, thermal treatment, landfill.
The methodology the simulation software employs helps to answer real problems in sustainable municipal solid waste management, disposal and reuse in cities, case by case.
BRGM is currently using the software and methodology while many of the AWAST parters are now enabled to install the simulator. Cities can ask for a simulator (realised on commercial basis) and receive training on how to use it, or any good engineer could use an existing simulator to test small changes. The simulator can be started from scratch or an existing simulator can be run. BRGM intends to offer services to cities interested in employing the tool.
What about costs? The basic USIM PAC module costs 5 000€. Its acquisition should be included in the preliminary order to realise a simulator. A full simulator, depending on the complexity of the system, can cost between 20 000 and 200 000€. For the time being, the AWAST module is available for free.
To get an idea of how the simulator works, a presentation on a case study in Orleans, France can be downloaded from awast.brgm.fr or a .ZIP file can obtained from BRGM by requesting an installation CD and a dongle (copy protection). Write to BRGM at: awast@brgm.fr.
Check the AWAST website for feedback coming in from running projects (mainly Orleans and Paris), to see the real world results of applying the simulator and methodology.
BRGM is also currently open to proposals involving R&D partnerships to improve the software.
More information: awast.brgm.fr
Methodology for the Analysis of Solid Waste (S.W.A.-Tool)Methodology for the Analysis of Solid Waste
This guideline describes a representative sampling and manually sorting approach in order to analyse the composition (plastic, organic, paper..) and the produced quantity of residual solid waste.
The following parts are included in the guideline: | Guideline describing the planning and execution of an analysis of solid waste
| | Sorting catalogue including specified waste categories
| | Reporting guideline to get common reports in order to compare waste analysis results
| | Excel tables for the evaluation of the analyzing results |
One of the main features of this guideline is user-friendliness.
Download SWA Methodology (PDF, 617Kb) and the SWA Tool Evaluation Sheets (Excel, 79Kb).
DEWA – Database for the evaluation of waste analyses
DEWA has been set up within the 5th framework EU project ‘Development of a methodological tool to enhance the precision and comparability of solid waste analysis data – S.W.A.-Tool’.
The database system DEWA provides practical support for the evaluation of waste analyses, according to the proposed methodology of the S.W.A.-Tool for carrying out waste analyses.
The prerequisite for the use of DEWA is that the waste analysis to be evaluated has been conducted in compliance with the S.W.A.-Tool methodology. This means in particular that the waste sample has to consist of a set of randomly selected sampling units of similar size and that sorting results are available for each sampling unit.
Download the Manual of the DEWA Database (PDF, 245Kb).
The installation CD-ROM for the DEWA database system can be requested from: office@ic-vienna.at.
More information on the SWA-Tool and DEWA is available from iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GmbH at: www.swa-tool.net
Life Cycle Assessment tools for Integrated Waste ManagementThe "Life cycle assessment tools for the development of integrated waste management (LCA-IWM) strategies for cities and regions with rapid growing economies" are being currently developed and will consist of | (i) a waste prognostic model, which will allow the prediction of future waste generation and
| | (ii) a sustainability assessment tool. The latter will enable the economic, environmental and social assessment of various waste management scenarios. |
The draft versions of both tools will be developed and used in case studies in the course of the year 2004. By August 2005 both tools, including a handbook in several languages will be freely available from the project web-site:
www.iwar.bauing.tu-darmstadt.de/abft/Lcaiwm/Main.htm
ORMA Tool: A tool to simulate the design of an Eco-Industrial ParkCoordinated by the Città delle Langhe, the Optimisation of Resource use and Waste Management in an Eco Industrial Park (ORMA) project created a simulation of an eco-industrial park in an area with low industrial development, based on Material Flow Analysis, Life Cycle Analysis and statistical entropy analysis. An innovative waste treatment plant was integrated in the simulation to optimise and control flows of materials, energy and waste.
An handbook is available, with all the documents and the reports produced during the ORMA project. More information is available from www.cittadellelanghe.it/orma-en.htm and from wastesolutions@iclei.org.
A Handbook on the implementation of Pay-As-You-Throw as a tool for urban waste managementThe Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Handbook offers a synthesis of the research findings in a useful and understandable format for policy makers, municipalities and other entities that consider variable rate pricing as an option in urban management and planning.
The Handbook is 200 pages and is in English. Information is offered at a cascade level from very general to very detailed to meet the needs of the different interest groups. Many of the conclusions are backed from associated studies on PAYT related aspects such as the current charging situations and waste separation potentials done in a local context.
The Handbook together with the results dealing with aspects related to local feasibility and program design helps especially in countries which either showed to have a vivid interest to give PAYT a trial in the frame of pilot projects or were on the verge of adopting such scheme.
The Handbook is available on request by writing to bookorders@payt.net
For further information on PAYT see also: www.payt.net
The Procura+ ManualICLEI's Procura+ Manual - A Guide to Cost-effective Sustainable Public Procurement" provides European public procurers with all they need to know to implement sustainable procurement in their authority - no matter what size or level of experience.
The manual presents the approach taken by Procura+, ICLEI's Sustainable Procurement Campaign - an approach based around five milestones, and a set of easy-to-apply key purchasing criteria for six high-priority product groups - buses, construction, cleaning products and services, electricity, food, and IT equipment.
The manual was published by Ökom Verlag in Januar 2004. To order your copy, visit www.oekom.de/verlag/german/books/clement-erdmenger_cities.htm for more details.
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