The environmental impact of transport in biowaste collection

The objective of the study is to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of transport in different scenarios of bio-waste collection. This bio-waste represents today more than one third of the unsorted waste by households in France (Ministère de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoires, 2022). This waste ends up being transported and disposed of even though it has a very high recovery potential. In total, the transportation of waste produced accounts for nearly 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by waste in France each year, or 2.4 million tons of CO2 equivalent (ADEME, 2016a). Most of these emissions are produced during the waste collection phase, hence the relevance of evaluating different bio-waste collection scenarios.