SCENARIOS PLANNING ON RESOURCE / WASTE FLOWS AND RESOURCE RECYCLING / WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE NEAR FUTURE

Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?

In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingness-to-pay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated...

From Waste to Resource Management: Reinventing Waste Contracts and Services

Waste Management Planning in Amirkabir Petrochemical Complex

The Amirkabir petrochemical complex (APC) is located in the south of Iran, on the northern coastline of the Persian Gulf. It has five different units which generate various waste estimated at 3115.98 ton/year. The objective of this study was to focus on the management of the processing wastes for minimizing the adverse environmental impacts. In order to properly manage and control waste generat...

Resource Recovery from Waste: Restoring the Balance between Resource Scarcity and Waste Overload

Current societal patterns of production and consumption drive a twin environmental crisis of resource scarcity and waste overload. Positioning waste and resource management in the context of ecosystem stewardship, this article relates increasing resource demand and waste production to the violation of planetary boundaries and human rights. We argue that a transition towards a circular economy (...

Optimal Planning of Solid Waste Collection, Recycling and Incineration System

The combustion temperature control for the potential emissions of trace organic compounds during incinera­ tion and the possible decrease of heating values by waste recycling have created a mutually influenced infrastruc­ ture in the current integrated solid waste management sys­ tem. This paper illustrates the problem of the compatibility between waste recycling and incineration by a nonlinear...