Household Solid Waste Generation: A Case Study of Misrata City in Post-War Libya
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The city of Misrata (Libya) needs to quantify its Household Solid Waste (HSW), as data pertaining to this aspect is scarce. In certain cases, this missing data render it difficult to analyse the relative increment rate of waste generation, culminating in the under-provision of collection services and disposal facilities. This study aims to evaluate waste generation in post-war Libya to provide data for the estimation of factors affecting the rate of HSW generation. We also intend to explore how the factors such as family income, family size, and house type influence the rate of waste generation in Misrata. This will help in the planning, design, development, and implementation of waste management approaches. 90 samples of solid waste from 30 households were weighed for three days, and the demographic information of those households was recorded. The results confirmed that the average generation rate of household solid waste in post-war Misrata is 0.440 - 0.808 kg/capita/day, with its mean reported to be 0.552 kg/capita/day. HSW generation is directly proportional to family income, family size, and house type.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".