Household Waste axis

Excerpt

The overall aim of the project is to acquire the knowledge needed to improve household waste recycling along the entire value chain, from collection to treatment and recycling, and the recovery and/or disposal of final waste. The project is structured around five themes. The first combines technology and social behavior to improve the sorting of household waste materials. The second focuses on innovative processes for decontaminating materials. Value chains are studied from the point of view of material/energy flows, logistics and environmental impacts. A fourth theme studies human behavior, organizational dynamics and the interconnections between players in a given area, and proposes ways of improving the structure of value chains. Finally, the role of regulation and standardization in recycling and waste sorting is analyzed.

Keywords: Cleaning/purification processes, Sorting processes, Waste characterization, Waste collection, Life cycle assessment, Economic players, Player dynamics, Regulation and standardization, Non-financial incentives, Individual behaviour

Tasks

Our researches

Innovative sorting for optimum material separation
Mathieu Durand, ESO
Sandrine Bacconnier, ESO

Combines technology and social behavior to improve waste separation. The aim is first to map and analyze the tools available to promote sorting in companies producing household waste. Then, separation technology is addressed through multi-view/multi-sensor and dual-energy X-ray images.

Innovative preparations for extensive reuse of materials
Yvan Chalamet, IMP

Aims to develop deinking/purification methods that limit the use of organic solvents (replaced by supercritical fluids) and promote efficient purification methods enabling the reuse of these materials for new applications.

Systems modeling and analysis
Pascal Guiraud, TBI

Modeling approaches and tools are needed to better integrate all aspects, from waste traceability to efficient recycling and reuse. Task 3 analyzes and optimizes value chains through material flow analysis (MFA), mathematical modeling and logistics optimization, economic evaluation and life cycle assessment (LCA).

Dynamics of actors and organizations
Lesly Cassin, BETA

Examines human behavior, the dynamics of actors and organizations, the interconnections of actors on the territory, and proposes ways to improve the structure of value chains. We’ll discover the extent to which supply chain design helps organize industries/communities/homes from geographic, political, social, environmental and economic perspectives.

Regulation, standardization
Nathalie Lazaric, GREDEG

Examines the role of regulation and standardization on human behavior with regard to recycling and waste separation, as well as on the development of new material channels.