OPTIMIZATION OF SEPARATED HOUSEHOLD WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEMS ON THE BASE OF GIS MODELLING

The Hungarian waste management sector is under transformation now. The new (2012/CLXXXV) Law on the Waste applies such requirements on the household waste collection enterprises that cause restructuring among the players on the waste market. Besides this, the deposit fee system (that are defined by 209/2005 government decree) proposed to be changed. The proposals are extending the scope of the products that are under this regulation towards the packaging materials, thus the paths of the flows of packaging waste between the consumers and the recycling factories will evade the traditional separated waste collection routes. The aim of the system transformation is enhancing the proportion of separately collected waste in accordance with the EU directives. Evaluation of the collection efficiency by collection methods and by application areas under practical boundary conditions seemed to be useful in the course of the transformation. Results of my research towards planning of efficient separated waste collection systems (by means of planning software tool development) are summarized in this article.