We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental … and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on … official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in …

Guerriero and Cairns (2009) recently estimate that contaminated sites and improper waste management result in 848 … absence of estimates of the Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF) in Italy or specific to the hazardous waste context, they use … specific to the hazardous waste context, and for causes of death that have been linked to contaminated site exposures. We …

Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both … from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally … comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to …

selection and market variables such as the unit charge for waste management, a result probably affected by the high degree of …

The present research proposes a macroeconomic assessment of the role of waste incineration with energy recovery (WtE …

This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It … presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice … of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at the source of generation, and the growing volume of plastic in the …

Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste … management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in … landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started defining targets for waste reduction. Against this backdrop, we aim to …

when comparing policies on the grounds of cost per life saved, especially in the context of hazardous waste site …

This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel … dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some …, probably due to the strong decentralisation of waste management and policies: local, economic, policy and structural factors …