The aim of this study is to introduce an approach for analysing, monitoring, and managing the household solid waste generation, recycling, and alternative treatments in a municipality. This approach presents the following issues: (i) to evaluate the quantity and composition of household solid waste to identify opportunities for waste recycling in detailed composition; (ii) to analyze the influence of relevant factors for household solid waste generation rates by physical categories and subcategories, next to develop the mathematical models of correlations between the waste generation rates of main physical categories and relevant factors; (iii) to examine the habit of households on recyclable waste discharge, the household attitudes toward good waste management and the household behaviors toward recycling activities; and (iv) to investigate the contribution of household solid waste treatment alternatives to mitigate greenhouse gas emission under various possible analysis scenarios by a multiple assessment based on various aspects such as greenhouse gas emission/reduction, energy generation/consumption, economic benefit, investment and operating cost, and land use burden. The outcomes of this approach will suggest the methodology for analysing, monitoring, and managing of household solid waste as support tool for integrated waste management.
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