Recent advancements toward resilient and sustainable municipal solid waste collection systems

A bibliometric analysis of circular economy in the fields of business and economics: towards more action-oriented research

“…Waste reduction is a fundamental part of the CE, which is very popular among scholars who cover general topics, such as measuring economic performance regarding waste flows (Wang et al, 2020 ), waste management challenges imposed by COVID-19 (Neumeyer et al, 2020 ), and opportunities for developing an efficient country-wide waste management system (Fatimah et al, 2020 ; Qureshi et al, 2020 ), as well as among those who cover narrow topics concerning the types of waste (e.g. marine debris (Agamuthu et al, 2019 ), commercial plastic waste (Khan et al, 2020 ), food waste (Oldfield et al, 2016 ), wood waste (Berger et al, 2020 )), municipal solid waste collection systems (Calabro & Satira, 2020 ; Ferronato et al, 2019 ), and bio-waste management options on the city and regional level (Zeller et al, 2020 ). Although the development of this field has been rapid, practitioners lack access to information about the end-of-life values of products required for the efficient planning of the materials’ reuse and recycling to build on targets to steer the transition from a linear to a circular state.…”

Source separation, transportation, pretreatment, and valorization of municipal solid waste: a critical review

“…Unlike the sorting and separation during the pretreatment mentioned later, source separation starts from the generation of MSW, affecting the whole waste management process. A practical source separation strategy is a prerequisite for reducing intermediate processing facilities and increasing the recovery rate (Calabro & Satira, 2020 ). Chen et al presented a community investigation demonstrating that source separation could not only reduce the load of landfills, the moisture of waste incineration, and increase the lower heating value of MSW, but also reduce the carbon emission by at least 66.8% (Chen et al, 2020 ).…”

“…Effective waste sorting and separation is the basic strategy for MSWM and the most effective way to increase the recovery rate of MSW (such as the EU's requirement of 65% recovery by 2030) (Calabro & Satira, 2020 ). Shanghai and Beijing in China also successively issued relevant laws and regulations on source separation to solve the heterogeneity problem in the resource utilization of MSW.…”

“…Moreover, the application of cross-disciplinary tools, such as geographic information system (GIS) and Internet of Things (IoT), provided a more refined management approach for C&T systems (Abdullah et al, 2018 ; Cetin, 2015b ). The purpose of source separation and intermediate treatment station is to select the most suitable value-added treatment method or to improve the potential of resource utilization (Calabro & Satira, 2020 ), rather than to adopt landfills with low resource potential and more emerging pollutants, such as antibiotic resistance genes (Li et al, 2020a ), pharmaceutical and personal care products (Yu et al, 2020 ), and microplastics (Golwala et al, 2021 ).…”

Education and training: Key solution to self-management and economic sustainability of waste pickers organisations

“…In Brazil, the collection and manual sorting of recyclable waste was temporarily suspended, which highlighted the waste pickers importance in the integrated solid waste management, but also the vulnerabilities (physical and financial) to which they are exposed (Penteado and Castro, 2021). This controversial reality is present in Brazil and other developing countries (Botello-Álvarez et al, 2018; Calabrò and Satira, 2020; Gonçalves et al, 2018; Silva et al, 2019; Velis, 2017).…”