Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a term usually applied
to a heterogeneous collection of garbage produced in urban
areas. Generally, urban garbage can be subdivided into two major
components: organic and inorganic. The characteristics and quantity of the
solid garbage generated in a region is a function of the standard of living in
the city or country. Garbage generated in developing countries have a
large proportion of organic garbage, while the garbage in developed countries
are more diversified with relatively larger shares of plastics and paper.
Sustainable garbage management systems are needed to
handle the increasing amount of household garbage in the world. Due to the fact
that garbage sorting is an important process in recycling and safe disposal of garbage
materials, it is critical to increasing the amount of garbage that is recycled,
as well as quality of recycled materials. Selection of appropriate technology
is necessary to reduce the garbage volume primarily and to utilize garbage as
the energy source because of the calorific value inside.
The more effectively garbage is sorted, the more
efficient the recycling process, enabling the production of secondary raw
materials of an equivalent or higher quality than virgin material. It's
necessary to design and improve the automatic garbage sorting machine. STAVN is
implementing this ideal all the time. The developed automated garbage sorting
machine incorporated flexibility and separation.
