GeneralWasteDataModel

Proposes a General Data Model to Describe how resources (and waste) flow in a city-region.

• Any socio-economic activity happening within an urban/regional system need, use and interact with a set of support systems.
• Physical support systems such as the road and electricity network
• Institutional support system as the set of laws and regulations that determine how a system should behave
• Socio-cultural support system that determine how the citizens interact with the system
• Resources (and secondary ones) can be:
1. Generated
2. Used
3. Transformed
4. Stored

In most of cases after one of these actions is executed the resources, goods or waste materials are moved from one place to another

Conceptual framework of secondary resources in city-regions

Main components

1. Generation: Every time there is a process, a by-product is generated. Waste means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard. It has no value. It cannot purchase or sold.
2. Transformation: By various means any waste or part of it can be transformed into a resource that can be re-introduced in the market for its use. Storage: When ever waste materials are stored over time.
3. Usage: After upgrading a by-product, it could be used by another or the same industry.
4. Transport: Every time a waste material is moved from one container to another, there is need for transportation

Adding necessary components to describe the system

1. Containers: Is the physical object or place that contains the waste
2. Support systems: Are the geographical and socio-economic systems that allow and determine activities in the territory

UML class diagram as tool to communicate the model

UML Class diagram of waste flows

UML model of waste flows

Case studies