Waste generation rate per household (kg per household per day)
Provisional. Usable pending approval; a project-proposed concept only by the project that proposed it.
Definition
The mass of waste the households at sampled service points set out over a waste characterisation’s declared accumulation period, per household per day, by material category: the summed mass of the samples divided by the summed household-days (households in force at each sampled service point times the days of its accumulation period). The composition of the waste is this value by material category over its total. Uncategorised mass is its own category. Persons in the sample are reported alongside, so a per-person rate can be read. Kind rate.
purpose
To establish how much waste, and of what kind, the households a project serves generate, so that collected and recovered mass can be read against it and approved GHG methodologies have a composition to start from.
rationale
A diversion rate on collected mass says nothing about the waste that never reached the service; a generation baseline measured by sorting and weighing real samples is the only basis for a generation-based recovery rate and for the material shares a recycling or composting methodology needs.
Classification
- Result level: Input
- Outcome domains: Climate mitigation, Resource recovery
- Unit of observation: Characterisation sample
- Activity types: Waste characterisation
- Approval status: Provisional
- Unit of measure:
KiloGM-PER-HH-DAY
Collections
- Waste characterisation module