5. Places of waste accumulation and collecting

Clean recycling starts at the place of waste accumulation.

5.1.At food places (restaurants, cafes, etc)

Instruction.

There’s always one person on duty. He looks after waste and tells other people how they should take care of leftovers.

● Leftovers from a leaf plate go into container 1.

● The plate goes to the cassette holder 2;

● Fluids and liquids from glasses go to a container 3.

● A glass goes to cassette holder 4;

● If there was packed food, the package should be cleaned out from food and sorted out into containers (for example, if it is ice-cream in a plastic holder, packaged in aluminum foil, foil and plastic goes into separate containers).

Fig. 5 Waste collecting at food places.

Containers are arranged inline alongside a corridor towards washstands. Opposite the containers there is a sign telling a class of waste and necessary actions to be performed. (laminated label + photo of an action with text, A3)

5.2.At outlets (stores, offices)

All stores and shops are to be equipped with 2 trash bins or containers (depending on volumes of waste). Shopkeepers should take care of the area and explain people why, where and how should they throw away their waste.

5.3. At public places (streets, squares)

Containers of bigger volume to be installed.

5.4. Waste collection at residential areas

Social advertising campaign explaining separate collection of different kinds of waste must take place. Local residents and out-of-towners must be educated to sort waste into 2 containers (Food and organic waste / other waste).

fig.7 Posters of separate waste collection

Waste is to be collected at special barrels (food/other) with volume of 100-200 litres and big-bags (1m3) situated at residential areas and organizations. Waste is transported to the sorting station. At the station they come to the sorting table and compost heaps. Transporting vehicle – is a motor-rickshaw (10m3). Then it comes to a loader with a container.

fig. 8 The loader can easily serve the entire city + 7 neighbor villages. Small size, mobility and functionality reduce the total cost.

Houses are equipped with containers for separate waste collection (organic/non-organic). All waste must be protected from rainfalls (caps, covers, curtains).

The exception is dangerous and hazardous waste. One must know them by heart: sources of lights (any kind), medical waste, batteries. There’s a special container for them. They must be unreachable for people and children especially.

5.5.Course of action for cleaners

Janitors and cleaners collect waste from containers and bin-boxes into waterproof bags in pedicabs. Then waste is loaded into auto-containers and big bin-bags, placed depending on the population density. All waste must be protected from animals with fences.

fig.9 The scheme of waste collection and transportation

Cleaners collect waste separately into bags. The task of a cleaner is to pack and load waste with no stealing/mixing of it. 20 big bags to be purchased for transportation. The number of 50 bags is the best.