Designing Pay-As-You-Throw schemes in municipal waste management services: A holistic approach

Elia, Valerio; Gnoni, Maria Grazia; Tornese, Fabiana

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.040

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“…Economic studies typically focus on external motivations through economic incentives in combination with different convenience factors (e.g. (Brown and Johnstone, 2014;Elia et al, 2015;Hanf and Batllevell, 2008;Jenkins et al, 2003). After caring out a meta-analysis of 63 empirical studies on HRB published between 1990 and 2010, identified four types of factors (each comprising several variables) shaping HRB: (1) socio-psychological, (2) technoorganisational, (3) socio-demographic, and (4) other study-specific factors.…”

Section: Literature Review Of Behavioural Factors For Hrbmentioning

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What motivates households recycling behaviour in recycling schemes of different maturity? Lessons from Lithuania and Sweden

Miliute-Plepiene

Hage

Plepys

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Section: Literature Review Of Behavioural Factors For Hrbmentioning

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What motivates households recycling behaviour in recycling schemes of different maturity? Lessons from Lithuania and Sweden

Miliute-Plepiene

Hage

Plepys

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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“…In the meantime, some Italian companies dealing with waste management and disposal have already equipped themselves with RFID systems like other European countries, including neighboring Spain [11]. As an example, in Lucca, Italy, the Sistema Ambiente s.p.a. company has equipped the home waste containers with specific identification tags and installed RFID devices onboard the vehicles in order to know the exact number of withdrawals of waste generated by each user (Figure 1), thus providing the necessary data for the calculation of punctual pricing according to the Pay What you Throw principle [14,15]. In this way, the user is encouraged to select recyclable materials, so as to minimize the amount of residual waste to be disposed of and, therefore, contain the related taxation, all at a low cost of workers for the Sistema Ambiente company.…”

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Circular Economy and E-Waste: An Opportunity from RFID TAGs

2019

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In this work, a deep economic and technical analysis for the enhancement of e-waste hierarchy applied to the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags is presented. Nowadays, the RFID technology represents a valuable solution for many applications to improve the quality and efficiency of the supply chain, as well as for enhanced people or object identification and smart devices. This leads to massive usage of such devices that could represent a threat to the environment, since they are often considered as generic waste and no specific e-waste policy has been identified for RFID. For these reasons, the paper presents a study based on the desk research technique to propose several possibilities currently available for producers of different RFID devices in order to mitigate this problem at every e-waste hierarchy stage, i.e., ecological design and prevention, reuse, recycle, and disposal. Moreover, a cost/benefit analysis has been reported in order to highlight the economic advantages related to the RFID tags reuse, as well as environmental impact reduction. Results proved that passive RFID tags represent the major candidate for the e-waste hierarchy enhancement at every level, demonstrating that it is more convenient for the producer to consider an ecologically aware design and promote a take-back system for tags in order to take advantages from the solution proposed for the RFID e-waste hierarchy.

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“…They can be divided based on the target side: producer of products side, consumer side and operator side. o Consumer -Changes in the collection system; Fees related to production: PAYTpay as you throw (Elia et al, 2015); Separation of larger amounts of fractions.…”

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Pricing and advertising strategies in conceptual waste management planning

Šomplák

Kůdela

Šmejkalová

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The paper presents a new model for integration of circular economy strategies into the municipal solid waste management. The goals are to reduce the waste produced, recycle at the highest rate as possible (material recovery) and to use the resultant residual waste for energy recovery. Such a strategy utilizes both pricing and advertising principles in the mixed integer linear programming model while accounting two criterions-assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) and cost minimization. The aim is to design the optimal waste management grid to suggest a sustainable economy with environmental concerns. The government, municipalities and/or authorized packaging company decide about the investments to the propagation of waste prevention and to advertising of waste recycling, while investors decide about new facility location and technological parameter. The availability of waste is projected in pricing method as well as in the location of the facility. The mathematical model will consider randomness in the form of waste production. The suggested non-linear functions of pricing and advertising are replaced by piecewise linear approximation to reduce computational complexity. The proposed multi-objective model is applied in a case study for the Czech Republic in the area of waste treatment infrastructure planning to support decision-making at the micro-regional level. The integration of circular economy principles, considering also the total amount of produced GHG, revealed the existing potential in waste prevention. On the other hand, the increase of recycling is limited, landfills are not supported and the energy recovery is preferred. However, the planning of the complex system relies on the decision-maker.

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Designing Pay-As-You-Throw schemes in municipal waste management services: A holistic approach

Cited by 73 publications

References 35 publications

What motivates households recycling behaviour in recycling schemes of different maturity? Lessons from Lithuania and Sweden

What motivates households recycling behaviour in recycling schemes of different maturity? Lessons from Lithuania and Sweden

Circular Economy and E-Waste: An Opportunity from RFID TAGs

Pricing and advertising strategies in conceptual waste management planning

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