Evaluating the social license to operate of waste-to-energy incineration projects: A case study from the Yangtze River Delta of China

The public has a strong resistance to such potential hazardous facilities as nuclear power plants and waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration due their potentially negative environment health effects, which leads difficulties in siting location. Exploring the public's cognition acceptance of is therefore vital for sustainable development industry. Based on four typical WTE located central cities Yangtze River Delta, current study evaluates social developed regions China by questionnaire survey based ‘social license operate’ (SLO) framework widely used energy/mining sectors. results show that SLO relatively low presents clear dimension structure shows differences with change cities. Enriching enterprises' through accumulation capital can help accept projects.