Strategic Outlook: What Direction for Waste Collection Technologies?
Description
This episode corresponds to Lesson 4 of our online course.
In this week’s episode, we explore the process of selecting waste collection vehicles and technologies for a city’s collection system – where narrow streets, traffic and noise are some of the key factors to influence the decision making process. Our guest this week is project manager of Waste and Recycling at Copenhagen City in Denmark, Björn Appelqvist, who discusses with us the main challenges for cities for collection services, and the advantages and disadvantages of various types of technologies, with a focus on smaller collection vehicles especially. Björn also gives us an insight into their procurement process – where a lack of industry standards make it difficult to navigate.
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Events on our radar this week:
European Biosolids & Organic Resrouces Conferece 2014.
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