Estimation of Urban Waste Generated and Uncollected in Romania

Abstract

Abstract

Regional Disparities in Urban Population Access to Sanitation Services.Case Study: Romania

“…High share of urban population without access to sanitation services (or the large number of inhabitants) leads to illegal dumping of waste generated and uncollected in urban areas. It performs an analysis of urban areas vulnerability to waste pollution.Furthermore, it can estimate the amounts of urban waste generated and uncollected at county level (Mihai et al,2011).The differences existing between the years 2003 and 2008 are explained by the fact that since 2003 it has been introduced new methods for processing statistical data from waste operators. In this context, the relevant statistical data has improved from year to year, data from the 2008 being more reliable than 2003.…”

Performance Assessment Method of Urban Waste Management Systems From Neamt County, Romania

“…The last indicator used for PAM refers to the uncollected waste (Q wu ). Mihai et al (2011) outlined the vulnerability to illegal dumping of urban areas from Romanian counties using this indicator. In order to highlight this vulnerability at local scale it is calculated for every city applying the following formula: Q wu t/yr = P u * I g *365/1000, Pupop.…”

Spatio-temporal analysis of Romania's rural population access to sanitation services in the context of EU accession,

“…The waste management problem has a complex spatial pattern of waste arisings [1]. These flows should be analyzed taking into account the peculiarities of territory concerned [2].First of all,full coverage of urban and rural population to sanitation services is a basic condition for a proper waste management system.Partial access of population to waste collection services lead to illegal dumping of uncollected waste [3].Waste collectors had to change their patterns of behaviour and their way of thinking, but they were institutionally locked in the existing routines [4].The development of these services is very slow in Romania particularly in rural territory,considering the fact that Romania was obliged up to July 16, 2009 to close all rural dumpsites and to provide full collection of waste generated [5].This paper highlights the disparities between Romanian counties regarding the spatio-temporal evolution of rural population access to sanitation services from 2003 to 2008 reflecting the poor solid waste management systems from rural territory. EU acquis compliance imposes the improvement of sanitation services in urban and rural territory and local authorities are resposable to provide these services for their community.Private sector involvement and cooperation between local authorities can provide viable solutions for waste management issues from rural areas [6].…”