Recovery of recyclables of municipal solid waste: the case of Jordan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The low recyclable recovery (RR) rate of municipal solid waste (MSW) (7·0%) in Jordan compared to the average recovery rate of the members of the EU (42%) indicates the necessity of changing the current practices of RR being implemented in Jordan where the latest national strategy of MSW management, launched by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs in May 2015, aims to achieve an RR rate of 50% by the year 2034. This research aims to identify the attributes of an efficient and successful RR programme and recommend an implementable plan for RR that can achieve the target of 50% earlier than the year 2034. Practices of RR currently being implemented in Jordan are analysed and compared with successful practices implemented in developed countries. A public–private partnership is suggested to establish and operate semi-mechanical RR facilities that use the resources currently owned and operated by Joint Service Councils and local municipalities. Utilising the current resources enables the country to achieve the 50% RR rate goal. The rough financial analysis conducted clearly indicates that the 20% RR rate of plastic alone can offset the deficit in the municipality budget resulting from MSW management in Jordan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".