Evaluation and comparison of selected household hazardous waste collection facilities

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:5814847

Burke, M; Brogan, J A; Sepanski, L M

In 1988 the City of Seattle's Office for Long-range Planning and the Solid Waste Utility implemented a permanent household hazardous waste collection program in an effort to decrease hazardous waste disposal in municipal solid and liquid waste streams. A detailed description of this program may be found in Household Hazardous Waste: Implementation of a Permanent Collection Facility,'' published by the Urban Consortium Energy Task Force. An integral part of Seattle's Household Hazardous Waste collection effort is a three part evaluation strategy that includes: an assessment of the effectiveness of the permanent facility; a comparison of the city's facility with other HHW collection programs; and a user survey to evaluate customer satisfaction and compare the Seattle and King County collection approaches. This evaluation strategy was conducted during Year 10 of the Urban Consortium Energy Task Force, and its results are document in this report. Several different collection programs were compared during the evaluation. 22 refs., 23 figs., 25 tabs.

• Research Organization: Seattle City Office for Long-Range Planning, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-78IR05106
• OSTI ID: 5814847
• Report Number(s): DOE/IR/05106-T138; ON: DE91013433
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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