PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stejskal, Bohdan
TI  - Determination of proportion of biodegradable and non-biodegradable cemetery waste fraction
DP  - 2014 Oct 1
TA  - Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
PG  - 181--184
VI  - 58
IP  - 2
AID - 10.11118/actaun201058020181
IS  - 12118516
AB  - Municipal waste landfilling is the most common practice of municipal waste disposal in the Czech Republic. As a member state of the EU the Czech Republic must comply with the legislative requirements set for waste management. EU Council Directive 1999/31/EC requires member states to limit the amount of bio-degradable waste into landfill.To achieve the objectives of the Plan of Waste Management of the Czech Republic, various methods has been proposed. Prior to the waste processing, it is necessary to know the waste material composition, and after that select the most appropriate method and procedure for waste utilization or disposal.Therefore an analysis of graveyard waste composition has been carried out, where, by repeated measurements of samples weighing more than 500 kg (the total amount of analyzed waste was 3107 kg), it was found out that the graveyard waste consists of almost 77 % of bio-degradable matter. It is operationally impossible to separate bio-degradable matter from non-bio-degradable materials. Therefore it is desirable to collect compostable cemetery green waste separately from the waste coming from the decoration of gravestones that may be energetically utilized.