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Resources, Conservation and Recycling 98 2015 67–75 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Resources, Conservation and Recycling j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: w w w. elsev /locate/res conrec Characterization, quanti?cation and management of household solid waste: A case study in China Binxian Gu a , Haikun Wang a,? , Zun Chen a , Suqin Jiang a , Weimo Zhu a , Miaomiao Liu a , Yangqing Chen a , Yi Wu a , Sheng He b , Rong Cheng b , Jie Yang c , Jun Bi a,?? a State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China b Suzhou Environmental Sanitation Administration Agency, Suzhou 215000, China c School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215011, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This study was undertaken to evaluate the characteristics of household solid waste HSW generation Received 31 March 2014 and to identify opportunities and bene?ts for waste recycling in a typical developed city of Suzhou in Received in revised form 11 January 2015 East China. A four-stage systematic tracking survey of 240 households was conducted for one week in Accepted 3 March 2015 each season starting from the summer of 2011 to the spring of 2012. And the driving forces behind HSW Available online 7 April 2015 generation were analyzed using a multiple linear regression model. Results show that Suzhou’s HSW generation rate was 280.5 g/cap/day, and the annual generation of HSW reached 568 thousand tons, Keywords: among which, 89.3% were compostable and recyclable waste. Education level of the household daily Household solid waste manager has a major impact on HSW generation rate. And other factors, such as local customs and culture, Tracking survey Social-economic bene?ts consumption patterns and residential lifestyles could also in?uence HSW generation. It could achieve