Due to the peculiarities of the tasks performed, the area of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has a long tradition in …

This paper examines how environmentally friendly production and disposal of waste are promoted by interaction between … concept of natural price or production price can be applied to constructing a sustainable economy, where production and waste …

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

In this paper we apply the Lenzen and Reynolds (2014) Waste Supply Use Table extension of Nakamura and Kondo's (2002a …) Waste Input-Output (WIO) framework to the 2008 Australian economy. This is the first application of any WIO-style method to … Australia as a nation. We find that the Services sector has the largest direct and indirect waste generation for an intermediate …

cities - particularly in Africa and Asia - collect less than half of the waste generated. Most wastes are disposed of in open …-income communities and slums lack appropriate waste management services. Given the rapid population growth and urbanization in many … exist in improving the management of waste in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is argued that, despite a worsening trend …

To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted … worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To … account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we employ the synthetic control method on a unique panel of monthly waste …

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 …

present and describe a new method for the treatment of gaseous waste that is economically feasible. It focuses on diverting …

education on the recycling rate of waste. The article has a contribution to the scientific literature, by analyzing the …, influence negatively the recycling rate of waste in an economy, while tertiary education has a positive influence on the level … of recycled waste. Therefore, different policies which aim to increase the education level of the population will have an …

organic waste and wastewater is an effective option for improving environmental and health security, rehabilitating … remaining countries, levels of waste treatment and recycling are much lower than their potential level in all countries of the … corruption levels in the system are pointed out as key barriers for wider implementation of waste and wastewater treatment and …