RAPID: The Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems

RAPID：冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行对城市固体废物管理系统的影响

• 批准号: 2030254
• 负责人: Juyeong Choi
• 金额: $ 15.22万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Impact; Coronavirus; COVID; 19

The coronavirus pandemic is challenging municipal solid waste management systems (MSWMSs). In an effort to prevent its spread, most people are working from home, which means that they are generating a larger amount of residential waste than normal. Further, the capacity of MSWMSs is being constrained by the increasing number of unavailable workers due to self-quarantining and the isolation of local areas as a result of travel bans. With a pandemic, the function and interplay of different system components (i.e., waste collection companies, waste transfer stations, local government agencies, material recovery facilities, and landfills) must become more adaptive to maximize the limited capacity, which is key to accommodating excessive waste demand. In this RAPID project, the project team will collect ephemeral data on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on MSWMSs in multiple U.S. states including Florida, New York, and California. Since the impact of the coronavirus on MSWMSs and their responses vary across states and from urban to rural setting, these data can be used to (i) identify and characterize a broad range of regional waste management challenges, (ii) track the emerging adaptive behaviors different system entities take to adequately operate municipal waste services, and (iii) specify the system requirements and characteristics (i.e., system composition, topology, and control) that enable successful adaptation during a pandemic. This project will yield a database of pandemic impacts and responses and associated attributes and variables in MSWMSs that will guide researchers, private sectors, regulators, and planning agencies toward the creation and implementation of resilient waste management operations for pandemics. The primary project tasks are threefold. First, the team will identify and map entities, operations, relationships, and controls in each system through virtual meetings with waste management companies and solid waste management authorities, and review of waste management guidelines. This step will establish a baseline structure for the normal operation, which will help to distinguish entities' emerging behaviors during the pandemic. Second, an online survey will ask system entities about their waste-related challenges and responses; the survey will occur once per month over a six-month period. If normal operations require adaptation of system structure, an interview will be held to gain more insight into the collective decision-making context. Third, a virtual workshop with a technical advisory group will be organized at the end of this project to review MSWMSs' reported adaptive measures and discuss recommendations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

冠状病毒大流行正在挑战城市固体废物管理系统（MSWMS）。为了防止其传播，大多数人都在家工作，这意味着他们产生的生活垃圾比平时更多。此外，由于自我隔离和旅行禁令导致当地地区隔离，导致无法工作的工人数量不断增加，城市固体废物处理系统的容量也受到限制。在大流行期间，不同系统组成部分（即废物收集公司、废物中转站、地方政府机构、材料回收设施和垃圾填埋场）的功能和相互作用必须变得更加适应性，以最大限度地提高有限的容量，这是满足过多废物需求的关键。在这个 RAPID 项目中，项目团队将收集有关冠状病毒大流行对美国多个州（包括佛罗里达州、纽约州和加利福尼亚州）MSWMS 影响的临时数据。由于冠状病毒对城市固体废物管理系统的影响及其响应因州、城市和农村环境而异，因此这些数据可用于（i）识别和描述广泛的区域废物管理挑战，（ii）跟踪不同系统实体为充分运营城市废物服务而采取的新兴适应性行为，以及（iii）指定系统要求和特征（即系统组成、拓扑和控制） 能够在大流行期间成功适应。该项目将产生一个关于流行病影响和反应以及城市固体废物管理系统中相关属性和变量的数据库，该数据库将指导研究人员、私营部门、监管机构和规划机构创建和实施针对流行病的弹性废物管理操作。主要项目任务有三个。首先，该团队将通过与废物管理公司和固体废物管理机构的虚拟会议以及废物管理指南的审查来识别和映射每个系统中的实体、运营、关系和控制。这一步骤将为正常运营建立基线结构，这将有助于区分实体在大流行期间出现的行为。其次，在线调查将询问系统实体与废物相关的挑战和应对措施；该调查将在六个月内每月进行一次。如果正常运营需要调整系统结构，将进行访谈以更深入地了解集体决策背景。第三，在该项目结束时将组织一个由技术咨询小组组成的虚拟研讨会，以审查 MSWMS 报告的适应性措施并讨论建议。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Challenges and Adaptive Measures for U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 大流行期间美国城市固体废物管理系统的挑战和适应性措施

• DOI: 10.3390/su14084834
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Sustainability
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Pinto, Ana Daniela;Jalloul, Hiba;Nickdoost, Navid;Sanusi, Fehintola;Choi, Juyeong;Abichou, Tarek
• 通讯作者: Abichou, Tarek

Adaptations of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

调整城市固体废物管理系统以应对冠状病毒大流行

• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1029-6_13
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021
• 作者: Pinto, Ana D.;Choi, Juyeong;Abichou, Tarek;Sanusi, Fehintola;Aninat, Emilia
• 通讯作者: Aninat, Emilia