Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy

Ichinose, Daisuke; Yamamoto, Masao; Yoshida, Yuichiro

doi:10.1016/j.iatssr.2013.01.002

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“…In the municipal solid waste sector especially, DEA analysis has been performed to evaluate particular services provided by municipalities, like waste collection (Worthington et al, 2001;Benito-López et al, 2011, Simões et al, 2013, to estimate the performance of different regions in recycling (Lozano et al, 2004, Chang et al, 2013, Yeh et al, 2016, Crociata and Mattoscio, 2016, to optimally select sites for locating SW facilities (Khadivi and Ghomi, 2012). Most of those studies aim to evaluate the cost efficiency (Huang et al, 2011, Rogge and De Jaeger, 2013, Spallini et al, 2016, Amaral et al, 2022 or the operational efficiency (Ichinose et al, 2013, García-Sánchez, 2008 of municipal solid waste services.…”

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Measure the difference in efficiency in waste disposal and collection services from the EU targets in the Campania municipalities.

Ferraro

Garofalo

Marchesano

2022

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The study analyses the economic and environmental performance of the 353 municipalities in the region of Campania in the waste disposal and collection services. This study consists of three steps, firstly municipal performance in the management of waste services from a linear economy point view is assessed. Secondly, a circular economy paradigm is considered and jointly the economic (minimization of management costs) and environmental (waste minimization) performance of municipalities management is measured; two different DEA models are employed using information provided by the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research for the year 2016. Third, in order to rank the most virtuous municipalities in the environmental dimension (toward a circular economy paradigm), the study defines a measure of the efficiency deviation from environmental sustainability. The results show a cluster of municipalities in the metropolitan area of Naples and Caserta with a worse performance in the environmental dimension but with a good performance in the economic dimension. The succession of national and regional regulations has accentuated the uncertainty in the executive process and in the management of the waste cycle, creating a regulatory vacuum. Local governments should act on citizen motivations, promoting awareness on environmental issues, and should implement time-saving collection methods. JEL: D61; H3; H76; I38; Q24; Q53; Q56; R14;

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Measure the difference in efficiency in waste disposal and collection services from the EU targets in the Campania municipalities.

Ferraro

Garofalo

Marchesano

2022

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“…By the early 2000s, the international trade in hazardous waste was a multi-billion dollar industry (Rauscher, 2005) driving research on this market and its impacts in regions like the European Union, as well as internationally (e.g. Baggs, 2009;D'Amato et al, 2012;Fikru, 2012;Ichinose et al, 2013;Kellenberg, 2012;Kellenberg and Levinson, 2013). This research has generated a set of working hypotheses, including a "first-best policy" world presuming an equal playing-field between nations and universal proper disposal, where the expanding international trade in hazardous waste would be based on comparative advantage and hence beneficial to all countries involved (Kellenberg and Levinson, 2013;Rauscher, 2005).…”

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Undermining methodological nationalism: Cosmopolitan analysis and visualization of the North American hazardous waste trade

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Drawing on a novel dataset of hazardous waste shipments among Canada, Mexico, and the United States, we seek to enhance dominant modes of understanding transnational trading and regulation at the scale of the nation-state. We argue that these, while valuable, are limited by methodological nationalism. This epistemological position identifies the nation-state as the most relevant unit of analysis in examining "transnational" phenomena. In the case of transboundary waste trading, tracking waste between nation-states has come at the expense of identification and analysis of specific sites within nations that receive hazardous materials or send them abroad, obscuring the ongoing proliferation of waste havens at a subnational level and related environmental justice concerns. Working against methodological nationalism entails an epistemological shift that we pursue in this article through a series of empirical, analytical, and representational practices. We propose three visualization tactics that undermine nation-centered imaginaries: (1) documenting waste havens within the understudied United States through identifying subnational sites importing hazardous waste for processing; (2) establishing connections through flow maps connecting importing and exporting localities transnationally trading specific hazardous wastes; and (3) analyzing the corporate networks dominating the transnational waste trade. We argue these tactics build toward an alternative conception of methodological cosmopolitanism that highlights alternative routes toward environmental justice.

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“…The results consistently showed that geographical features, such as the number of remote inhabited islands, are a dominant factor in determining relative inefficiency. Moreover, the results suggest that the prefectures with higher engagement by the private sector have a higher relative efficiency, measured in terms of household solid waste collection, while a higher proportion of private work affects relative efficiency negatively [13]. In applying the DEA method and non-controllable input [21], the technical and cost relative efficiency of waste collection was analysed in 73 municipalities in the Spanish province of Catalonia in 1998.…”

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Efficiency of municipal service providers in the Republic of Croatia

Šegota

Cerović

Maradin

2017

Croat. Oper. Res. Rev.

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Abstract. Municipal services, such as the collection, removal and disposal of waste, are just some of the necessary activities carried out by public authorities. Efficient management and utilization of public resources improves the general well-being of a community, and benefits especially the users of municipal services. Hence, the optimal provision of public services is essential. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of municipal services, related primarily to waste collection and disposal, and other related municipal services. The purpose of the paper is to determine the relative cost efficiency of twenty public utility companies that collect household waste in different Croatian cities and surrounding municipalities. The method employed in the study is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), using a non-controllable input-oriented model with variable returns to scale. In addition to the relative efficiency results of each utility company, by means of projections on the efficiency frontier, sources and amounts of relative inefficiency were determined, which represent potential improvements for all inefficient utility companies. The results indicate that all inefficient utility companies can improve their efficiency by reducing the corresponding inputs. Thus, company material costs should be drastically reduced, i.e., the relatively inefficient utility company (with the exception of two companies) should reduce costs by at least 50%. Considering employee costs, half of the relatively inefficient utility companies should reduce such costs by up to 50%, while the other half should reduce those costs by 58.11% to about 70%. Furthermore, five of the inefficient companies should reduce total assets input by a relatively small amount (up to 38.00%), whereas the remaining seven companies should reduce the company's total assets from 60.96% to 70.99%. This means that management at inefficient companies take into account the obtained results when making decisions in the future in order to increase company efficiency, which is one of the characteristics of an optimal business.

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Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Measure the difference in efficiency in waste disposal and collection services from the EU targets in the Campania municipalities.

Measure the difference in efficiency in waste disposal and collection services from the EU targets in the Campania municipalities.

Undermining methodological nationalism: Cosmopolitan analysis and visualization of the North American hazardous waste trade

Efficiency of municipal service providers in the Republic of Croatia

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