Table 4 Biowaste container composition (%).

From: Efficiency of a pilot scheme for the separate collection of the biowaste from municipal solid waste in Spain

 

Zone 1

Zone 2

Zone 3

Mean

St. dev

Mean

St. dev

Mean

St. dev

Biowaste

79.75

11.30

82.74

5.57

81.18

8.78

Inappropriate

20.25

11.30

17.25

5.52

18.82

8.78

Metal packaging

0.37

0.33

0.21

0.08

0.16

0.11

Other metals

0.01

0.02

0.01

0.02

0.03

0.04

Clean paper/cardboard

0.00

0.00

0.09

0.13

0.07

0.09

Dirty paper/cardboard

2.18

0.94

2.50

0.42

3.41

0.51

Plastic packaging

6.02

2.00

4.45

0.47

5.97

0.83

Other plastics

0.51

0.43

0.21

0.08

0.49

0.24

Sanitary cellulose

0.40

0.63

0.19

0.18

0.18

0.12

Beverages cartons

0.09

0.23

0.07

0.03

0.17

0.20

Textile

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.02

0.33

0.33

Others

0.13

0.26

0.70

0.28

0.11

0.20

Glass packaging

2.13

2.00

0.44

0.57

0.42

0.23

Fines

8.41

1.72

8.35

0.77

7.48

0.97

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