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Lecture 2 - Waste Characterisation

3. Waste sorting

As you learned there is a lot of reason as to why one should sort waste. But how does one take a proper sample without influencing the result? And how is waste sorted? Which categories are there?

Along with the slides you can also take a look at a video made by the TU Dresden during their anual waste sorting experiment.

 
Sorting Waste – How can heterogeneous waste be analysed and characterised?

 

And look at the slides to consilidate the knowledge you acquired in the video.

Waste characterization - Sorting waste von German-MENA University Network & Prevent Waste Alliance (CC BY)