Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

Financial sustainability of waste management is a key element for achieving universal, high-quality and sustainable service. In collaboration with Helvetas Bolivia, a cost assessment and modelling tool focusing on collection services in cities was developed. This Excel-based tool allows evaluating the real costs of providing solid waste management service which is often underestimated or unknown. The second part of the tool models the costs of four different collection systems, mixed waste door to door, Curbside and with containers, and segregated waste in containers. Even though the model calculations focus on waste collection services, other costs are also integrated with proxy values to allow an overall comparison of waste management costs.

Cost assessment and model (Excel) – English and Spanish (to be selected in the file)

Cost model instructions (Spanish only)