Comparison of operational efficiency among waste collection systems in Da Nang city, Viet Nam

Abstract

In Vietnam, the waste collection is a labor intensive task in MSW management, and the improvement of collection efficiency would be one of the important problems. Da Nang city has a good practice in waste collection system and various collection systems, e.g. dustbin collection, tricycle collection, truck collection, and waste transfer stations. The objectives of this study were to get the basic data on waste collection operation on different collection systems as the basis of planning rational waste collection system by GPS and GIS applications, and to estimate the collection resources and compare the operational efficiency by collection system.