NWSS Separation Quality

Pre-release. This site describes standard version 0.1.0-dev, which is in development and may change before version 1.0.0.

An evaluator’s ordinal rating of one container’s contents against its stream, 4 clean to 0 not separated. Legacy container-level ratings (four levels) and load-level ratings at a facility (five levels) both map onto it.

@prefix skos:    <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix nwss:    <https://nova.org.za/nwss/> .
@prefix nwss-cs: <https://nova.org.za/nwss/concepts/> .

nwss-cs:SeparationQuality a skos:ConceptScheme ;
    skos:prefLabel "NWSS Separation Quality"@en ;
    skos:definition "An evaluator's ordinal rating of one container's contents against its stream, 4 clean to 0 not separated. Legacy container-level ratings (four levels) and load-level ratings at a facility (five levels) both map onto it."@en ;
    skos:hasTopConcept nwss-cs:quality-clean , nwss-cs:quality-minor-contamination , nwss-cs:quality-noticeable-contamination ,
        nwss-cs:quality-heavy-contamination , nwss-cs:quality-not-separated .

nwss-cs:quality-clean a skos:Concept ;
    skos:prefLabel "Clean"@en ; skos:notation "CLEAN" ; nwss:ordinalScore 4 ;
    skos:definition "Only material of the container's stream."@en ;
    skos:hiddenLabel "Very_good" , "Perfect_no_problems" ;
    skos:inScheme nwss-cs:SeparationQuality ; skos:topConceptOf nwss-cs:SeparationQuality .

nwss-cs:quality-minor-contamination a skos:Concept ;
    skos:prefLabel "Minor contamination"@en ; skos:notation "MINOR_CONTAMINATION" ; nwss:ordinalScore 3 ;
    skos:definition "A little material of other streams."@en ;
    skos:hiddenLabel "Decent_little_mixing" , "Very_good_small_issues" ;
    skos:inScheme nwss-cs:SeparationQuality ; skos:topConceptOf nwss-cs:SeparationQuality .

nwss-cs:quality-noticeable-contamination a skos:Concept ;
    skos:prefLabel "Noticeable contamination"@en ; skos:notation "NOTICEABLE_CONTAMINATION" ; nwss:ordinalScore 2 ;
    skos:definition "Clearly visible material of other streams, though the stream still dominates."@en ;
    skos:hiddenLabel "Average_noticable_mixing" , "Some_good_some_bad" ;
    skos:inScheme nwss-cs:SeparationQuality ; skos:topConceptOf nwss-cs:SeparationQuality .

nwss-cs:quality-heavy-contamination a skos:Concept ;
    skos:prefLabel "Heavy contamination"@en ; skos:notation "HEAVY_CONTAMINATION" ; nwss:ordinalScore 1 ;
    skos:definition "Much material of other streams."@en ;
    skos:hiddenLabel "Poor_lots_of_mixing" , "Mostly_bad_mixing_contamination" ;
    skos:inScheme nwss-cs:SeparationQuality ; skos:topConceptOf nwss-cs:SeparationQuality .

nwss-cs:quality-not-separated a skos:Concept ;
    skos:prefLabel "Not separated"@en ; skos:notation "NOT_SEPARATED" ; nwss:ordinalScore 0 ;
    skos:definition "No sign of separation: mixed waste."@en ;
    skos:hiddenLabel "Looks_no_SoS" ;
    skos:inScheme nwss-cs:SeparationQuality ; skos:topConceptOf nwss-cs:SeparationQuality .

Clean

Only material of the container’s stream.

Avoid: Perfect_no_problems, Very_good

Heavy contamination

Much material of other streams.

Avoid: Mostly_bad_mixing_contamination, Poor_lots_of_mixing

Minor contamination

A little material of other streams.

Avoid: Decent_little_mixing, Very_good_small_issues

Not separated

No sign of separation: mixed waste.

Avoid: Looks_no_SoS

Noticeable contamination

Clearly visible material of other streams, though the stream still dominates.

Avoid: Average_noticable_mixing, Some_good_some_bad

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes glossary/container-schemes.ttl at standard version 0.1.0-dev.