An Extranet Waste Inventory Application

Abstract

Effective tracking of waste management activities greatly enhances governments’ ability to increase citizens’ awareness and to develop environment policies. Tracking in turn relies on accurate data acquisition and exploitation. This paper details and illustrates the key features of APLID, the canton of Geneva’s Extranet waste inventory application. Developed with Open Source software, APLID allows all concerned actors to enter, update and visualize their waste data into a centralized database, and the canton of Geneva to issue annual statistical reports in support of political decision-making towards sustainable development.