Experimental investigation of lab scaled sink and float-based segregation process for mixed municipal solid waste Online publication date: Wed, 12-Jul-2023
by Prashant Shukla; Pankaj Kumar Sharma; Shyam Pandey
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM), Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023
Abstract: Segregation of municipal solid waste at source lies at the heart of good waste management. Source segregation improves collection and processing efficiency of municipal solid waste management system. But ensuring segregation at source requires better infrastructure and strict compliance systems. That is why most of the urban local bodies of the different developing countries are struggling to manage their solid waste. Such scenario project a need to intervene a segregation approach which can minimise the dependency over source segregation practice. Hence, for inspecting an economical approach for MSW segregation, an experimental investigation has been done to analyse the effect of sink and float separation process on varied sample quantity of mixed MSW. This paper presents the experimental observations and the performance analysis of the segregation process, which will help to check the feasibility of approach and bring out the optimised working model of the lab scaled setup.
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