| A methodology for developing strategic municipal solid waste management plans with an application in Greece. | |
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PMID: 20855354 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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A rational approach for developing optimal municipal solid waste (MSW) management plans comprises the strategic and the detailed planning phases. The present paper focuses on the former, the objective of which is to screen management alternatives so as to select the ones that are able to fulfil all legal and other management requirements with reasonable cost. The analysis considers the transportation, treatment and final disposal of the commingled wastes that remain after the application of material recovery at the source programmes and comprises 10 elements, four of which are region-dependent and the remaining ones application-dependent. These elements and their inter-dependencies are described and the entire methodology is applied to Greece. The application considers the existing regional plans and shows that they are incompatible with the existing EU Directives, as well as overly expensive. To address this problem, a new plan is developed in accordance with the rational planning principles of the present methodology. The comparative evaluation of the above alternatives shows that the existing regional plans, in addition to being incompatible with the applicable EU Directives, require 4.3 to 4.8 times (3.7 to 4.4 billion €) higher capital investment and their annual cost is at least 2.1 to 2.3 times (590 to 735 million € year(-1)) higher in comparison with the new national plan. |
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Authors:
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A P Economopoulos |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-09-20 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA Volume: 28 ISSN: 1399-3070 ISO Abbreviation: Waste Manag Res Publication Date: 2010 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-10-28 Completed Date: 2011-01-19 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9881064 Medline TA: Waste Manag Res Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1021-33 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. eco@otenet.gr |
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Greece Refuse Disposal / economics, methods* |
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