Urban solid waste characterization in the east part of Black Sea region

In the current study, the solid waste characterisation that belongs to Artvin city centre, whichis located in East Black Sea Region of Turkey, were searched. The study has the feature of being the firststudy for the country of Artvin in terms of study. The field of study is composed of 7 neighborhoods andthose can be separated into 3 groups as low, middle and high level of income. In this study, 11 kind ofwaste were examined, which are organic, paper, plastic, glass, metal, ash, electronic, textile, garden waste,hazardous and others. The effect of seasons on the amount of waste was examined; also, the relationshipbetween the amount of waste and the level of income was also examined by using the two-way ANOVAanalysis. Furthermore, all ratios of wastes that are located in Artvin city centre were searched. Accordingto that, the waste ratios, occurs in one year, of all neighborhoods in the Artvin city centre are found as61.06% organic, 10.28% paper, 9% plastic, 3.20% glass, 2.29% metal, 3.87% ash, 0.037% electronic, 1.58%textile, 1.35% garden waste, 0.51 % hazardous and 7.23% others. Those obtained values were comparedwith other similar studies in the literature. Moreover, for collecting recyclable wastes for the city centre 3different methods are proposed named as methods collection from households, collection from buildingsand collection from neighborhoods. These methods have been studied economically and the collection frombuildings method is the most appropriate among these three methods.

Keywords:

ANOVA (Analysis of variance) , Black Sea , Characterization , Solid waste , Urbanization