TAILIEUCHUNG - Characteristics of household solid waste in Hue city
This paper examined the characteristics of household solid waste with a hope of contributing to the improvement of solid waste management in Hue city. The study was conducted by collecting, classifying and measuring household solid waste from 62 households in 7 consecutive days. | Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology 55 (4C) (2017) 168-173 CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE IN HUE CITY Tran Ngoc Tuan1, *, Le Van Thang1, Duong Van Hieu1, Le Quang Long1, 2 1 Faculty of Environmental Science, University of Sciences, Hue University, 77 Nguyen Hue Street, Hue city, Thua Thien Hue province, Viet Nam 2 Hue Urban Environment and Public Works State Company, 46 Tran Phu Street, Hue city, Thua Thien Hue province, Vie Nnam * Email: trangoctuan@ Received: 30 June 2017; Accepted for published: 16 October 2017 ABSTRACT This paper examined the characteristics of household solid waste with a hope of contributing to the improvement of solid waste management in Hue city. The study was conducted by collecting, classifying and measuring household solid waste from 62 households in 7 consecutive days. A structure questionnaire was also used in the interviews with survey households to collect data on their demographic characteristics. The results show that the household solid waste was generated evenly on a daily basis with an amount of 286±171g/person/day during the weekdays. The composition of household domestic solid waste was divided into 17 different groups; of which, the two groups representing the largest amount were food waste ( %) and garden waste ( %). Hazardous waste accounted for a very small proportion (only %). The detailed composition ratio of food, garden waste, nylon, paper, plastic, porcelain, etc. and mixed stuff were defined at %, %, %, %, %, %, etc. and 10,23 %, respectively. Keywords: characteristics, waste generation, household solid waste, Hue city. 1. INTRODUCTION The economic growth has been occurred, accompanied with the improvement of income, the amount of solid waste has been increasing. In Vietnam, the amount of urban solid waste has also increased rapidly over time, from million tons (2003) to million tons (2008) [1]. The rapid increase in amountand in .
đang nạp các trang xem trước
