Quantification of disaster wastes has been considered only recently by emergency planners or waste managers, thus only few works exist on the subject. However, we can see an increase of interest in the subject during the past five years. This review aims at presenting an overview of the methods of quantification of disaster wastes that have been developed since the 90s, in order to help when setting a method. The present work analyses and compares 22 methods that quantify construction and demolition debris, vegetative debris and household good wastes, by focusing on the resources and data needed, on operational criteria and on the precision and uncertainties relative to each approach. Several criteria are scrutinized to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the methods.

The review enables to distinguish three types of methods considering the resources associated: the “historical data” methods, based on historical data from past disasters, the “databased” methods, using national, regional or local databases (on household goods, building types, etc.) and the “imaging” methods that quantify solid wastes through the use of aerial, satellite or radar images. The last type is more accurate but doesn’t enable to distinguish different types of wastes yet. Another classification can be made considering the moment of use of methods: the predictive methods, used in anticipation of disasters for disaster waste planning, and the post-disaster methods, used for the emergency response and reconstruction during the recovery phase. Imaging methods are only post-disaster methods whereas historical data and databased methods are mainly predictive methods.

应急计划人员或废物管理者直到最近才考虑对灾害废物进行量化，因此在该主题上只有很少的工作。但是，我们可以看到在过去五年中对该主题的兴趣有所增加。这篇综述旨在概述自90年代以来开发的灾难废物量化方法，以帮助确定方法。本工作通过关注所需的资源和数据，操作标准以及相对于每种方法的精度和不确定性，分析和比较了22种量化建筑和拆除残骸，植物残骸和生活垃圾的方法。仔细检查了几个标准，以了解该方法的优缺点。

通过本次审查，可以考虑相关资源来区分三种类型的方法：基于过去灾难的历史数据的“历史数据”方法，使用国家，区域或地方数据库（关于家庭用品，建筑物类型，等）和通过航空，卫星或雷达图像量化固体废物的“成像”方法。最后一种类型更准确，但尚不能区分不同类型的废物。可以考虑使用方法的时机来进行另一种分类：预测方法（用于预测灾害以进行灾难废物计划）和灾后方法（用于在恢复阶段进行应急响应和重建）。