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Managing Household Waste in Ireland: Behavioural Parameters and Policy Options

Curtis, John; Lyons, Seán; O'Callaghan-Platt, Abigail - 2009

Ireland has signed up to ambitious targets for diverting municipal solid waste from landfill. These targets are likely … household waste management behaviour in Ireland is scarce, and policymaking could benefit from improved data and market analysis …. In this paper we use data from the EPA and CSO to estimate econometric models of household waste collection in Ireland …

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Sorting It Out: Contribution-Action Gap in Waste Segregation in Urban India

Basistha, Ahana; Prakash, Nishith; Sherif, Raisa - 2024

Urban waste management challenges pose significant health and economic consequences. Although source-level waste segregation offers a promising solution, its success depends on household participation. Through a randomized controlled trial in the capital city of Bihar, India, we evaluate how...

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Sustainable development goals data-driven local policy: Focus on SDG 11 and SDG 12

Beccarello, Massimo; Di Foggia, Giacomo - In: Administrative Sciences 12 (2022) 4, pp. 1-11

Municipal solid waste charging schemes can be powerful drivers for local policy efforts in reaching the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on an economic lever to meet SDG 11,...

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Estimation of power generation from municipal solid wastes: A case Study of Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria

Ibikunle, R. A.; Titiladunayo, I. F.; Akinnuli, B. O.; … - In: Energy Reports 5 (2019), pp. 126-135

In this study, attempt was made to estimate the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated per annum, the generation rate in kg/capita/day as well as the quantity and the fractions of the waste streams available for energy production. The physical characterization of the waste streams...

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Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola

Maria, Caetano; Góis, José; Leitão, Anabela - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 364-369

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management contributes substantially to climate change. The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from waste collection and landfill activities have a significant contribution. The carbon footprint is an important environmental indicator to express GHG emissions. Nowadays...

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Assessing the energy dynamics of Pakistan: Prospects of biomass energy

Irfan, Muhammad; Zhao, Zhen-Yu; Panjwani, Manoj Kumar; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 80-93

The energy needs of Pakistan have increased many folds in recent years due to improved lifestyle, ever-increasing population, and economic development. Biomass energy has emerged as a promising renewable energy source and has an enormous potential to fulfill the energy requirements of the...

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Waste capacity and its environmental impact of a residential district during its life cycle

Sözer, Hatice; Sözen, Hüseyin - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 286-296

Buildings generate a significant amount of waste that has considerable impacts on environment and energy flow. This study aims to investigate the waste capacity of the selected district and its effect on the environment within the current waste management policy via Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)...

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Household waste separation intention and the importance of public policy

Chen, Bing; Lee, Jiwon - In: International Trade, Politics and Development (ITPD) 4 (2020) 1, pp. 61-79

Purpose - The key challenge that urban cities in most developing and transitional economies is confronting is municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Waste separation is a critical component to successful recycling management in terms of enhancing the quality of recyclables, reducing MSW and...

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An evaluation of Ireland's sustainable freight transport policy

Zhang, Xu; Plant, Eoin; Valantasis Kanellos, Nikolaos - In: Logistics 6 (2022) 3, pp. 1-23

in Ireland. The research applied a Policy Delphi Method to a heterogeneous expert panel. Results: The findings indicate … that the current sustainable freight transport policy measures in Ireland are limited, and the paper suggests 38 measures … decarbonisation measures in Ireland should first formulate on the decarbonisation stages "avoid" and "shift", and then move to the …

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Milk wars: Cooperation, contestation, conflict and the Irish War of Independence

McLaughlin, Eoin; Sharp, Paul; Skovsgaard, Christian Volmar - 2024

Agricultural cooperation is seen as a way to solve collective action problems and has been associated with high social capital and other beneficial impacts in the countryside beyond productivity increases. But what if it comes into conflict with existing private concerns? The Irish dairy...

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