Waste Indicators of Primary Sector and Health & Veterinary Services for Regional Planning

Waste Indicators of Primary Sector and Health & Veterinary Services for Regional Planning

E. CIFRIAN L. PÉREZ E. DOSAL J.R. VIGURI A. ANDRÉS 

Chemical Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry Department, University of Cantabria, Spain

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https://doi.org/10.2495/SDP-V9-N6-794–811
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Abstract: 

When there is a need to move smoothly and effectively from an abundance of detailed field data to summa-rized information, indicators and indices are used. Indicators are important tools that assist decision-makers in formulating and implementing plans for the management of waste at different geographic levels. In Can-tabria, a northern Spanish region, all waste streams generated are covered through four specific Waste Plans recently adopted. The present study is focused on the Primary Sector, Health & Veterinary Services Waste Plan (PHWP), which is the framework to the decision-making processes related to the generation and manage-ment of forest, agricultural, livestock, food industry and health & veterinary wastes. In this work, 16 indicators have been proposed to track the evolution over time of the management of these waste streams in the region and the degree of achievement of the policy objectives. This article discusses the way to obtain, analyse and evaluate valuable information to build the indicators, finding that only eight indicators can be applied at short term. In addition, a summary of these indicators is included, showing in general, a good trend of the evolution of primary sector, health & veterinary waste management. Finally, different actions to improve the quality of data used for the indicators development are proposed in order to obtain more useful waste indicators to the stakeholders.

Keywords: 

Decision-making, indicators, primary sector, regional planning, waste management, waste policy

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