Municipal solid waste management index in urban areas: Delphi validated tool Online publication date: Fri, 06-Oct-2017
by Shefali Godura; Arun Kumar Aggarwal; Prakash Bhatia
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM), Vol. 20, No. 3, 2017
Abstract: Due to non-availability of a comprehensive index to assess and score status of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) of a given place, a Delphi validated index was developed. Multistage-sampling technique was used at the household, street, bin, transportation, processing and disposal level observations in two Indian cities namely, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. Final index included total 52 observable items. Mean household waste management score was 4.25 (95% C.I., 4.09-4.41) in Chandigarh as compared to 4.09 (95% C.I., 3.95-4.23) at Hyderabad. Street level median score was 1.0 (0.0-3.0) for Chandigarh and 0.5 (0.0-5.0) for Hyderabad. Mean bin level score was 5.27 (95% C.I., 3.93-6.63) for Chandigarh and 4.58 (95% C.I., 3.62-5.54) for Hyderabad. The researcher achieved the objective of first time developing and using a scientific index to quantify the status of MSWM comprehensively of a city and compared it with another city.
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