Morphological analysis of municipal solid waste: review

Abstract

This article represents an overview of existing methods for determining the amount of formation and morphological composition of municipal solid waste. It also represents their history and evolution. The method for determining the amount of formation and morphological composition of municipal solid waste is an important task for efficient management of solid waste (MSW).This problem is existing for decades. But today it is absolutely relevant for the countries of Eastern Europe, that includes Ukraine. There were listed and given a brief description of each method. In the article, the tendency towards taking into account social and economic characteristics of households in the production of MSW were detected. Also, it is given the list of main problems that cause the low accuracy of the data obtained, while applying the methods of research the formation number and morphological composition of MSW.