Anna Melchiori on her secondment

“The first month of my secondment at the Sheffield City Council has been a wonderful training experience! I have been closely working with my hosting supervisor Alastair Black on the current management system of waste in the Sheffield municipality. I  learnt the adopted strategies and the performed operations from the kerbside collection of black-blue-green bins to the disposal of materials at recycling facilities.  Moreover, I had the ​great ​opportunity to visit different operating Household Waste Recycling Centres in ​the ​Sheffield ​area ​thus getting ​more ​information on the collection tasks performed at the sites from operators.
Together with my CNR supervisor Antonino Sgalambro we have been sharing our scientific knowledge of mathematical technologies in the field of Decision Science that could support better decision making and optimization of the Waste Management system.

​I found the presented issues challenging from a scientific point of view and the City Council very interested in the proposed methodologies. I am  ​looking forward ​to ​spending my next two months in 2018​ there​!”