MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS FOR REFUSE STORAGE, COLLECTION, AND TRANSPORTATION PRACTICES

Perhaps between 75 to 80 percent of a solid waste system cost is due to storage, collection, and transportation, the remainder being attributable to disposal. Although a community may have an accurate estimate of what it is spending on its system, it often is uncertain as to whether or not it is receiving reasonable value in the benefits returned; i.e., it has little or no idea of its 'cost effectiveness.' This report presents the results of a project that focused on the systematic development of a set of measures and measurement tools that could be used to assess the effectiveness of solid waste storage, collection, and transportation practices. The project included a pilot test of the measurement methodology in an urban community. The measurement system presented in this report is intended to support municipal decision-makers who have responsibility for such services as mixed refuse collection, street and alley cleaning, sanitary code enforcement, sanitation education, and other related activities.

• Corporate Authors:

  Messer Associates, Incorporated

  8555 16th Street, Suite 501
  Silver Spring, MD  United States  20910

  National Environmental Research Center

  Solid Hazardous Waste Research Laboratory, EPA
  Cincinnati, OH  United States  45628
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 197 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Cost effectiveness; Economic analysis; Handling and storage; Management; Measurement; Planning; Sanitary engineering; Solid waste disposal; Solid wastes; Storage facilities; Transportation; Waste disposal
• Old TRIS Terms: Collection; Management planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091653
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: EPA-68-03-0260
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 1975 12:00AM