Estimating garbage truck GHG emissions is challenging since the same number of stops and road miles must be serviced, just with less trucks over less time. At ROC, we are estimating the reduction in CO2 from route optimization for waste collection as the net reduction in emissions from reducing the number of trucks utilized per…
Switching to automated waste collection requires determining which customers cannot be collected by automated collection. The automated waste collection criteria that we evaluate each stop for are the following: 1. Dead end without a cul de sac to turn around. 2. On-street parking disallowing space for a cart. 3. Low hanging tree limbs, blocking automation…
The Municipal Solid Waste Collections and Route Optimization Handbook is a blog series to go into the operational aspects of municipal solid waste collection. The purpose of this series is to provide information from past experiences that will give managers the information to ever improve waste collection efficiency and effectiveness. Although the collections portion (versus…
