Sorting waste in apartment buildings: facts and possibilities
Paper i proceeding, 2013

Waste handling is a major challenge in today’s society. The amount of waste is increasing despite numerous, waste-system related improvements. In other domains of interest for sustainable development, researchers have recently started to investigate the user’s role instead of keeping a systems perspective that excludes the human factors. To investigate the use of existing waste-sorting infrastructure available at apartment buildings, this paper reports on a case study carried out in two buildings in Gothenburg/Sweden. Results from the study reveal mismatches between user needs and what the system offers. The aim was to identify a strategy that housing companies could take to allow for more effective sorting of household waste in rental housing areas, with special focus on the biodegradable fraction. The resulting strategy consists of practical solutions that can be implemented by housing companies with similar conditions.

design for sustainability

waste sorting

waste composition studies

Författare

Isabel Ordonez Pizarro

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Design and Human Factors

Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra)

Robin Harder

Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra)

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Vatten Miljö Teknik

Ulrike Rahe

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Design and Human Factors

Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra)

Göteborgs universitet

Proceedings of the ERSCP-EMSU 2013 conference, 16th Conference of the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) & 7th Conference of the Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU), 4 – 7 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

Design

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

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