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Dataset of socio-economic and waste collection indicators for Portugal at municipal level
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This data article presents demographic, socio-economic and wasterelated data at municipal level for Portugal. The dataset includes
raw data collected from 4 main sources: (i) the annual reports of
waste management companies; (ii) the database of the Portuguese
water, sanitation and waste regulatory entity; (iii) the Portuguese
Environmental Agency; and (iv) national statistical data. Relevant
indicators for waste generation and for the separate collection of
waste are proposed and calculated using the raw data. The dataset
comprises municipalities with high, medium and low separate
collection yields, providing socio-economic and waste infrastructures data that can be used for benchmarking. The dataset can
also be used to define a baseline against which the progress of the
collection of packaging waste can be assessed over time, or else
serve as input to mathematical models predicting waste generation
and collection. Moreover, data can serve as the base to calculate
new waste-related indicators. In addition to being a valuable input
to the waste topic, the dataset can also be used in a large range of
other topics where demographic and socio-economic parameters
are relevant. The data presented herein are associated with the
research articles “Model for the separate collection of packaging waste in Portuguese low-performing recycling regions” [1] and “Artificial neural network modelling of the amount of separatelycollected household packaging waste” [2].