Dear Manfred, from european countries (including Portugal) there are such type of data. Is that interesting for you? From developing countries I dont know the existence of such data. Regards

I have some unpublished from Shanghai if that is useful. Of course the 'dry' recyclables are not covered: they are sold by the residents as the market is active.

Send me an email if you want it.

Hi Keshav,

Thank you kindly for the reference. It does not answer the question I asked, namely, after source separation, what is the composition of domestic waste? Also, I am surprised by the numbers you cite for per capita waste production: 170 grams per day. This is only about one sixth of that in Brazilian cities.

Cheers,

Manfred

Dear Susana,

Thank you kindty for your reply. If you have the data for Europe, I would like to see them. I do have them for Brazil, and like to compare them to other countries.

Cheers,

Manfred

Dear Keshav,

Thank you for the return. It still does not tell me the results of eventual source separation experiments.

Regards,

Manfred

Dear Florin,

I looked at this report. It surprised me. The raw waste composition in Bulgaria and Romenia is almost identical to that in Brazil, and very different from other European countries. However, my question referred to source-separated waste, not raw waste.

Regards,

Manfred

Dear Marie,

Yes, I like to have the study on Shanghai. My e-mail is [email protected]

Sorry for the late reply, I somehow missed your message.

Regards,

Manfred

Dear Manfred,

You mention Brazil a lot, so maybe you already have some data from over here? I just published a paper that contains some data from our Plan of Selective Collection, if you think it's useful let me know and I can send the full repot. The paper can be downloaded https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1YxnO,LlFP67rR

Dear Priscila,

Thank you kindly for the link to your paper. I have picked it up and shall read it.

Manfred

Manfred

We have been doing a lot of research in this area over the last six months. Part of the reason you will struggle to find an answer is that there is (as far as we can tell) almost zero formal source separation going on in UMI, LMI, and LI countries. Where this does exist, the waste is usually deposited at buy back centres or communal drop off points.

The informal sector carries out virtually all recycling collections in developing countries, but composition is tricky to nail down.

Thus is possibly not helpful for you, but I have also spent considerable time looking for something which isn’t there.

best wishes

Ed

Ed,

Thank you for your input.

Manfred