New Approach for Calculation of Recycling Rates of Municipal Waste in the Circular Economy (CE)

DOROSZ, Aneta; GENEROWICZ, Agnieszka; KULTYS, Henryk

New Approach for Calculation of Recycling Rates of Municipal Waste in the Circular Economy (CE)

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

Volume 14 (2021): Issue 4 (December 2021)

By:

Aneta DOROSZ, Agnieszka GENEROWICZ and Henryk KULTYS

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Investment gap and investment outlays in the treatment of municipal waste. Source: Own study based on data from KPGO 2022 [18]

Tendency of changes in the recycling rate [%] in the adopted variants. Source: Own study

Recycling rates [%] in the analyzed scenarios in two variants

Description		Large municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Medium municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Small municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Average value of the recycling rate [%]
Scenario number	Variant Number	Large municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Medium municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Small municipalities Recycling rate [%]	Average value of the recycling rate [%]
Scenario 1	Variant I	12.96	15.08	12.22	13.42	16.65
	Variant II	18.48	21.20	19.94	19.87	16.65
Scenario 2	Variant I	21.74	17.37	16.52	16.52	22.95
	Variant II	31.03	24.12	26.90	26.90	22.95
Scenario 3	Variant I	29.38	33.12	18.26	18.26	33.55
	Variant II	42.72	47.99	29.81	29.81	33.55

Summary of scenarios and determination of the patterns of the recycling rate in the developed variants

Scenario number	Scenario description	Determining the pattern – variant I	Determining the pattern – variant II
Scenario 1	the recycling rate is calculated as the ratio of the weight of paper, metal, plastic and glass (PMPG) prepared for re-use and recycling to the weight of total municipal waste generated	p=MrpmpgMwREAL×100% where:P – level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste, %,Mr_pmpg – total mass of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste prepared for re-use and recycling, Mg,Mw_REAL – total mass of generated (collected) municipal waste, Mg	p=MrpmpgMwCSO×100% where:P – level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste, %,Mr_pmpg – total mass of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste prepared for re-use and recycling, Mg,Mw_CSO – total mass of generated municipal waste, Mg
Scenario 2	the recycling rate is calculated as the ratio of the weight of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste prepared for re-use and recycling, and bio-waste transferred to the recycling process (input into the recycling process) to the total weight of municipal waste generated	p=Mrpmpg+BIOMwREAL×100% where:P – level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste,%, Mr_pmpg+BIOrec – total weight of paper, metal, plastic, glass and recycled bio-waste, Mg,Mw_REAL – total mass of generated (collected) municipal waste, Mg	p=Mrpmpg+BIOMwCSO×100% where:P – level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste, %,Mr_pmpg+BIOrec – total weight of paper, metal, plastic, glass and recycled bio-waste, Mg,Mw_CSO – total mass of generated municipal waste, Mg
Scenario 3	the recycling rate is calculated as the ratio of the weight of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste and bio-waste collected and collected selectively in municipal waste management systems to the total weight of municipal waste generated	p=Mrsel(pmpg+BIO)MwREAL×100% where:P – level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste, %,Mr_{sel(pmpg+BIO)} – total mass of separately collected waste paper, metals, plastics, recycled glass and bio-waste, Mg,Mw_REAL – total mass of generated (collected) municipal waste, Mg	p=Mrsel(pmpg+BIO)MwCSO×100% where:P – the level of preparation for re-use and recycling of municipal waste, expressed in %,Mr_{sel(pmpg+BIO)} – total mass of separately collected waste paper, metals, plastics, recycled glass and bio-waste, Mg,Mw_CSO – total mass of generated municipal waste, Mg

Recycling rates [%] in the analysed scenarios according to two variants for GMK in 2018-2020

Description		2018	2019	2020
Recycling levels achieved by the City of Krakow		42.00	55.92	69.49
Scenario number	Variant Number	Recycling rate [%]	Recycling rate [%]	Recycling rate [%]
Scenario 1	Variant I	12.78	14.04	17.35
	Variant II	20.92	22.88	26.91
Scenario 2	Variant I	18.14	19.67	27.52
	Variant II	29.69	32.05	42.66
Scenario 3	Variant I	32.20	34.26	40.55
	Variant II	52.71	55.83	62.88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2021-036 | Journal eISSN: 2720-6947 | Journal ISSN: 1899-0142

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Language: English

Page range: 125 - 136

Submitted on: Nov 13, 2021

Accepted on: Nov 24, 2021

Published on: Aug 4, 2022

Published by: Silesian University of Technology

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Recycling rates [%] in the analyzed scenarios in two variants

Summary of scenarios and determination of the patterns of the recycling rate in the developed variants

Recycling rates [%] in the analysed scenarios according to two variants for GMK in 2018-2020

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