Physical-Chemical Characterization of 'Black Bag' Waste in a Municipality

摘要

An extensive sampling and analysis campaign provided snapshots of non-source separated "black bag" wastes from single housing curbside and multi-residential facilities. A more comprehensive understanding of materials components and size fractions was gained, as well as information potentially useful for considering alternative disposal strategies such as anaerobic digestion, low carbon fuel production, and further processing for recycling. While all of these approaches appear to have potential from a materials and chemistry viewpoint, it would be prudent to conduct further analysis on samples generated from test trials of proposed separation techniques to determine the appropriateness of the recovered materials streams for their designated purposes.