Integrated solid waste management of Springfield, Massachusetts Page: 3 of 206

                                
Abstract

The subject document reports the results of an in-depth investigation of the fiscal year 1993 cost of the
city of Springfield, Massachusetts, integrated municipal solid waste management (IMSWM) system, the
energy consumed to operate the system, and the environmental performance requirements for each of the
system's waste-processing and disposal facilities.
The document reports actual data from records kept by participants. Every effort was made to minimize
the use of assumptions, and no attempt is made to interpret the data reported. Analytical approaches are
documented so that interested analysts may perform manipulation or further analysis of the data. As such,
the report is a reference document for Municipal Solid Waste management professionals who are interested
in the actual costs and energy consumption, for a 1-year period, of an operating IMSWM system.
The report is organized into two main parts. The first part is the executive summary and case study
portion of the report. The executive summary provides a basic description of the study area and selected
economic and energy information. Within the case study are detailed descriptions of each component
operating during the study period; the quantities of solid waste collected, processed, and marketed within
the study boundaries; the cost of managing MSW in Springfield; an energy usage analysis; a review of
federal, state, and local environmental requirement compliance; a reference section; and a glossary of
terms.
The second part of the report focuses on a more detailed discourse on the above topics. In addition, the
methodology used to determine the economic costs and energy consumption of the system components
is found in the second portion of this report. The methodology created for this project will be helpful for
those professionals who wish to break out the costs of their own integrated systems.
Other reports in the series include a synopsis of results and methodologies that presents the principal
findings from the case studies and case studies of each of the six IMSWM systems evaluated in this
program. In addition to Springfield, Massachusetts, the following systems participated in the evaluation:
Minneapolis/Hennepin County, Minnesota; Palm Beach County, Florida; Scottsdale, Arizona; Seattle,
Washington; and Sevierville, Tennessee.
Key Words
Case study
Composting
Cost analysis
Energy Analysis
Energy recovery
Environmental requirements: solid waste management
Integrated municipal solid waste management
Landfilling
Materials recovery
Municipal solid waste
Recycling
Resource recovery
Springfield, Massachusetts
Solid waste
SWANA
Waste-to-energy