Positive Impacts of the Overall-Process Management Measures on Promoting Municipal Solid Waste Classification: A Case Study of Chongqing, China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper is interesting considering the current context of the waste management in general and the particularities of the municipal waste. The questionnaire method used in the study can provide good insight into waste management issues.
Some recomandations refers to:
- Can be used some references for point 2.2
- More clear presented the chestionare at point 2.2.
- More scientific interpretation of the data from points 3.1 to 3.5.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Line 102-103: Authors only mentioned the data collection regarding the classification of the source-separated collection of MSW; however, information regarding how data were collected for the other investigated three parts as mentioned in Lines 81-84 was not provided.
Line 115: How did the author obtain the sample size representative for this study?
Line 135: How were the MSW compositions determined or obtained? Authors should provide the source of the data.
Line 146: Is the figure based on the authors’ estimation or the data was obtained from a source?
Line 162: Is there any distinct socio-economic difference among the 9 districts (place of residence) that could have influenced the responses obtained from the respondents?
Line 215: There was no information about this section in the methodology.
Line 248: Same as above.
Line 292: Same as above.
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Reviewer 3 Report
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the positive impact of whole-process management measures on promoting domestic waste separation in major urban areas of Chongqing, significantly increasing residents' participation in source-separated urban domestic waste collection，but the current document has several weaknesses that must be strengthened in order to obtain a documentary result that is equal to the value of the publication.
(1) Figure 2 shows the comparison about the composition of MSW in 2011 and 2015, the data is relatively old, it is suggested to take the MSW data of Chongqing in the last five years for a comparative analysis.
(2) The number of participants in the questionnaire in Table 2 is small and does not fully represent the subjective wishes of Chongqing residents, and the capacity of the data needs to be improved.
(3) Figure 3 and Figure 4 are too blurred and should be replaced to improve the clarity of the image.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Accept
