Leoben - "Waste Transfer Stations in Different Regions", a report from the ISWA Working Group on Collection and Transportation Technology, has now been published. Edited and written by Gernot Kreindl, the report wants to provide waste management professionals with an overview of the present situation of waste transfer stations in different mainly European regions. General aspects about the management of transfer stations are also included, as well as special detail information.
So the author collected lots of dates and figures form Helsinki and severeal other finnish towns, Hamburg / Germany, Hungarian Szentendre and Szigetszentmiklós, Nimwegen in the Netherlands, the city of Sáo Paulo in Brazil and the Dan Region Association of towns in Israel.
A “solid waste transfer station” is any site, location, tract of land, installation, or building that is used or intended to be used primarily for the purpose of transferring solid wastes. Waste transfer stations play an important role in a community’s waste management system, serving as a link between a community’s solid-waste collection scheme and final waste disposal facilities such as landfills, incinerators, material recovery facilities and recycling plants. Different solid waste fractions are generated off the premises of the facilities, located close to residential or commercial areas.
Transfer stations are used to receive and hold waste from collection vehicles such as municipal collection trucks until it can be moved to larger transfer vehicles - usually after compacting to reduce volume - for transport to distant treatment plants. Occasionally transfer stations also provide waste sorting and recycling services. The long distance transport of minor lots of municipal waste with small collecting vehicles - says Gernot Kreindl - is not economic and additionally charges the atmosphere, causing carbon dioxide emissions of the transport vehicles.
The report "Waste Transfer Stations in Different Regions" by Gernot Kreindl can be downloaded under iswa.org.
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