waste-flow 1.0.7

A package for retrieving data concerning waste management on the European continent.

waste_flow version 1.0.7

waste_flow is a python package for retrieving data concerning the waste management of European countries.

Installing

waste_flow is a python package and hence is compatible with all operating systems: Linux, macOS and Windows. The only prerequisite is python3 which is often installed by default. Simply type the following on your terminal:

$ pip3 install --user waste_flow

Or if you want to install it for all users of the system:

$ sudo pip3 install waste_flow

If you do not have pip on your system you can usually get it with these commands (fresh Ubuntu 18-LTS):

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
$ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ python3 get-pip.py --user

Usage

Here are some examples to use the pacakge.

To retrieve the large dataframe with dry mass for all years and all countries you can do the following:

from waste_flow.generation import waste_gen
print(waste_gen.dry_mass)

If you just want to see how much rubber waste did the UK generate in 2008, you can do the following:

from waste_flow.generation import waste_gen
params = ("waste   == 'W073' & "
          "country == 'UK' & "
          "year    == '2008'")
result = waste_gen.dry_long.query(params) 
print(result)

To generate the waste generation plots do the following:

Cache

When you import waste_flow, we will check the $WASTE_FLOW_CACHE environment variable to see where to download and store the cached data. If this variable is not set, we will default to the platform's temporary directory and clone a repository there. This could result in re-downloading the cache after every reboot.