Drivers of solid waste collection costs. Empirical evidence from Italy

Greco, Giulio; Allegrini, Marco; Lungo, Claudio Del; Savellini, Paolo Gori; Gabellini, Lorenzo

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.011

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“…152/2006 did not affect every region in the same way, since it has been implemented differently according to the economic, institutional, political and social local setting. First of all, as shown by Greco et al (2014), in Italy there are differences in the efficiency rates among Italian regions. The separate collection process is carried out more efficiently in the North, data that are consistent with the greater productivity observed in other private and public sectors.…”

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“…The separate collection process is carried out more efficiently in the North, data that are consistent with the greater productivity observed in other private and public sectors. As highlighted by Greco et al (2014) and by Mazzanti and Montini (2014), inefficiencies in other regions may be related to less developed managerial culture, lack of infrastructures and stronger political interference in the management of waste disposal companies controlled by municipalities.…”

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Separate waste collection in Italy: the role of socio-cultural factors and targets set by law

Agovino

Garofalo

Mariani

2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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The aim of this paper was twofold: on the one hand, we analyse the results\ud achieved in terms of percentages of separate collection in Italy by testing the effectiveness\ud of Legislative Decree 152/2006 in improving the separate collection process; on the\ud other hand, we investigate on some of the factors, related to the sociocultural local context,\ud that could explain the different impacts of the law in the three macro-areas considered\ud (North, Central and South Italy). To this purpose, an econometric analysis on the Italian\ud regions for the 1996–2013 period is performed, comparing the period before (1996–2006)\ud and after (2006–2013) the date of entry into force of the new law. The results show the\ud effectiveness of Legislative Decree 152/2006 in promoting separate collection, although a\ud regional difference in terms of separate collection rate is observed. Northern regions\ud proved to be more dynamic and reactive to the above-mentioned legislation, while Central\ud and especially Southern regions achieved poorer results in moving to higher separate waste\ud collection rates. Finally, our work provides evidence on some local factors that may have\ud hampered an effective policy implementation in Southern regions, among them, the\ud presence of criminal activities and the lack of citizen participation in politics

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Separate waste collection in Italy: the role of socio-cultural factors and targets set by law

Agovino

Garofalo

Mariani

2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Waste collection and recycling is a complex activity, that may take a multitude of different forms (Rodrigues et al, 2016), and presents relevant differences according to the type of waste (Greco et al, 2015). Varying levels of performance of waste management systems may have a huge impact at all territorial levels.…”

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Neighborhood effects and pro-environmental behavior: The case of Italian separate waste collection

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Agovino

Sacco

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…In econometric modeling of MSW collection systems, there is the need to specify a cost function and a method for estimating the parameters, for e.g. Saturation Curve Method, as stated in Dyson and Chang [13]; and Ordinary Least Squares Regression, as applied by Greco et al [9]. The functional forms of the estimation methods include the linear, trans-log and log-linear models.…”

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“…Different forms of cost function have been used by past studies to model MSW collection cost. Greco et al [9] investigated the drivers of solid waste collection cost and found out that different waste types are significantly affected by population size and density, percentage of separate collection, percentage of home collection and private delivery. Their results also indicate that internal efficiency of management companies also significantly affects collection cost.…”

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Cost drivers and functions for municipal solid waste collection systems in Ghana

Sulemana

Donkor

Oduro–Kwarteng

2018

IJET

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The collection of municipal solid waste accounts for 60% to 80% of total management cost. This study determined the factors driving operating cost and developed cost functions for municipal solid waste collection systems in Ghana. Data on cost variables from seventy systems were used to estimate the parameters of log-linear cost functions. Results from the study led to the conclusion that quantity of waste collected, fuel consumed and distance travelled increase significantly and explain about 63.0% of the variation in operating cost. The amount of fuel consumed and quantity of waste collected varied significantly and explained about 67.4% of the variation in operating cost of systems from low waste generating sources. For high waste generating sources, the distance travelled, fuel consumed and quantity of waste collected significantly and better explained (85.4%) the variation in operating cost. This can be attributed to the fact that such systems are from places with better facilities. The cost function for high waste generating sources can comparatively better aid decision making in terms of operations, management, investment and policy actions. Cost-effective solid waste collection schemes should therefore consider efficient management of fuel consumed, quantity of waste generated and distance travelled.

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Drivers of solid waste collection costs. Empirical evidence from Italy

Cited by 119 publications

References 12 publications

Separate waste collection in Italy: the role of socio-cultural factors and targets set by law

Separate waste collection in Italy: the role of socio-cultural factors and targets set by law

Neighborhood effects and pro-environmental behavior: The case of Italian separate waste collection

Cost drivers and functions for municipal solid waste collection systems in Ghana

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