Wood pallet recovery, repair, and recycling are sound environmental activities that can reduce both forest resource demands and waste in landfills. Our studies found that 6.16 million tons of wood pallets (or 223.6 million pallets) entered municipal solid waste (MSW) and construction and demolition (C&D) landfill facilities in 1995. At the same time, wood pallet recovery, repair, and recycling ...

This study aims at evaluating the environmental impacts stemmed from End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) treatment system in Korea, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. In the process of the assessment, not only the environmental burdens originated from ELV dismantling processes and recycling processes but also the environment benefits obtained from the avoided effects of recycled materials on the e...

This Special Issue provides several different perspectives on the complex issue of packaging waste recycling. It comprises a diverse and rich set of contributions with insights from very different disciplines that range from economics to engineering. All types of “costs and benefits” are addressed in this collection of articles. In addition to the economic and strictly financial impacts of sele...

In the endeavour of avoiding presence of biodegradable waste in landfills and increasing recycling, mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) plants have seen a significant increase in number and capacity in the last two decades. The aim of these plants is separating and stabilizing the quickly biodegradable fraction of the waste as well as recovering recyclables from mixed waste streams. In this s...

Mainly due to an enforced legislation as well as an increased social demand, companies need to integrate ecological aspects into their corporate goals. Compliance to these goals often leads to the development of innovative approaches to environmental management by means of applying the fundamental principles of the “Circular Economy”. Additionally, intra and inter-organizational concepts of was...

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...