Eco-Rom Ambalaje Magazine Issue No.12 May - July 2014 | Page 17

“moves” to the yellow box” - and is in
progress between May and October
2014.
Why did we “change the change”?
Starting from the experience of other European countries, we realized that citizens
rather associate the yellow box with milk and
juice cartons and that they are more easily
sorted if collected in the yellow box.
ﬔe same opinion was confirmed by sector 1
residents, as seen from a study conducted by
Eco-Rom Ambalaje: 21% of the citizens believe that milk and juice cartons should be
collected in the yellow box, while only 12%
believe they belong in the blue box.
ﬔe above-mentioned study also shows
that although 84% of the citizens know
that milk and juice cartons are recyclable,
only 19% put them in the separate collection boxes. More details about the campaign and information about separate
collection of packaging waste can be
found on www.ColecteazaSelectiv.ro.

1.2 . SEPARATE COLLECTION OF PACKAGING
WASTE FROM HOUSEHOLDS USING THE
”DOOR-TO-DOOR” SYSTEM
An efficient and effective IT solution for
tracking and monitoring the sacks for separate collection of packaging waste and
following the quantities collected has
been implemented by Eco-Rom Ambalaje
to offer the opportunity for a complete and
easy control of processes and resources.
ﬔis way, a number of otherwise difficult
objectives can be reached: separate collection directly from the owners’ associations, determining the packaging waste
quantities originated from the households
(HOUSEHOLD flow), as well as a more effective use of resources and accurate calibration for best development.
Results
• Control of the operational flow.
• Better performance by collecting
“cleaner” materials.
• A flexible system, easily adjusted to local
features.

1.3 OUTSOURCED MONITORING
Objective and independent monitoring of
the separate collection infrastructure in
order to obtain more effective information
about the state of separate collection systems and an improved decision-making
process facilitate dialogue between partners regarding in-the-field management,
based on recent, complete and objective
information and running precise prognoses and analyses. As the team has always been searching to improve efficiency
and the quality of waste management
services, their professionalism and enthu-

siasm as well as successful partnerships
led to a continuous development of separate collection of household generated
waste, a very complex, but by no means
impossible, feat. And this is only the beginning of the race. ﬔe next 10 years will
be even more dynamic and what we have
done is only an increment of what we can
do together in the future.

2.2 INFRASTRUCTURE EFFICIENCY
• Separate collection performance analysis for each system in the portfolio, by a
close monitoring of quantitative performance, accurate reporting for each collection channel and avoidance of reported
data contamination.

2. CONTROL AND ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR THE
MANAGEMENT OF SEPARATE COLLECTION
SYSTEMS

• Automated calculation which takes into account personalized indicators for each city,
by analyzing the way resources are allocated independently for each partnership.

2.1 MONITORING AND EvALUATION OF THE SEPARATE COLLECTION INFRASTRUCTURE, CONDUCTED:

2.3 ONLINE qUANTITY REPORTING PLATFORM
WITH INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT,
WHICH PROvIDES:

• ﬔrough an innovative system of collection infrastructure management, using
the GPS position of the collection point,
photo allocation and recording the information in an application.

• Validation of monthly collected and reported quantities.

• ﬔe use of Scoring A, B, C with three
evaluation criteria: aspect, accessibility
and quality of materials, thus improving
control in observance of the main features of a well-performing separate collection system.

• Individual access to the managed system for each partner -