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The increasing rate of waste production per capita, the technological advances in packaging products, and the new waste policy and the legal provisions adopted in developed countries created a constant change in the set of parameters that determine the design of solutions for integrated waste management, where waste collection plays a fundamental role. A vast spectrum of technologies for source-separated waste collection and devices was developed, making the evaluation and selection of the one to be applied a difficult task. The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the complexity of identifying, selecting, and benchmarking waste collection systems, presenting a taxonomic classification for the different technical solutions, related to the relevant parts of collection activities and critical equipment characteristics.
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Pires, A., Martinho, G., Rodrigues, S., Gomes, M.I. (2019). Technology Status of Waste Collection Systems. In: Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93200-2_3
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