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Assessing the economic and environmental performance of municipal solid waste collection and sorting programmes

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Courcelle, C Kestemont, Marie-Paule [UCL] Tyteca, Daniel [UCL] Installe, Michel [UCL]

The objective of this paper is to assess the economic and environmental performance of municipal multi-material waste collection and sorting programmes, and their contribution to sustainable development. These programmes collect and sort household waste in order to recover materials that are considered to be desirable "outputs" of the process. However, recovery procedures also generate "undesirable outputs" such as pollution, noise and residues. To account for different aspects in a performance measure, the concept of "productive efficiency" is used. The feasibility of a non-parametric approach to productive efficiency is illustrated and substantiated, including economic and environmental variables in assessing the performances of nine waste collection and sorting programmes from European municipalities.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 1998
Language Anglais
Journal information "Waste Management and Research" - Vol. 16, no. 3, p. 253-263 (1998)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Academic Press Ltd (London)
issn 0734-242X
e-issn 1096-3669
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - FSA/INMA - Département d'ingénierie mathématique
Keywords household waste management ; recycling programme ; waste collection ; waste processing ; productive efficiency ; performance
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Bibliographic reference Courcelle, C ; Kestemont, Marie-Paule ; Tyteca, Daniel ; Installe, Michel. Assessing the economic and environmental performance of municipal solid waste collection and sorting programmes. In: Waste Management and Research, Vol. 16, no. 3, p. 253-263 (1998)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/45261