The incorporation of waste prevention activities into life cycle assessments of municipal solid waste management systems: methodological issues

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Prevention ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Life Cycle Assessments ◽  
Prevention Activities ◽  
Waste Prevention Activities

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA) OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN CLUJ COUNTY, ROMANIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela-Emilia Pop ◽  
Akos Redey ◽  
Nicolae Frunzeti ◽  
Artur Ionescu ◽  
Tatiana Yuzhakova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management

scholarly journals Evaluation of Externality Costs in Life-Cycle Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 3119-3127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Martinez-Sanchez ◽  
James W. Levis ◽  
Anders Damgaard ◽  
Joseph F. DeCarolis ◽  
Morton A. Barlaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Life Cycle Optimization

Towards flexible evaluation schemes in areas with lacking information: a case of waste governance in Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110179
Author(s):  
Dolores Elizabeth Turcott Cervantes ◽  
Beatriz Adriana Venegas Sahagún ◽  
Amaya Lobo García de Cortázar
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Stage Of Development

Local governments face the need to achieve sustainability in the provision of public services, and to do so, proper governance is essential. This work proposes a method to assess governance in local waste management systems based on a set of indicators that are flexible and robust enough to allow objective and reliable evaluation even where the information that is available is deficient. The proposal is based on a set of indicators divided into six categories that represent an increasing order of governance maturity: institutional framework; government effectiveness; transparency and accountability; network creation; participation; and corruption control. The article presents the proposal and a first test in two Mexican municipalities, which are an example of municipal solid waste management systems in an incipient stage of development, where there may be serious limitations in terms of access to information. The results show that the methodology can be replicated in different contexts and can be useful for making decisions about improvements in municipal solid waste management systems or for comparing them with others. In addition, sufficient information was obtained for a first diagnosis of the cases studied, which indicates the coherence of the proposed framework. Points for practitioners Proper governance is essential to achieve sustainability in the provision of public services. The assessment of local governance must be robust enough to motivate changes and, at the same time, flexible enough to allow reliable evaluation where the quality of service and the availability of information may be scant. We propose a new framework for the assessment of governance in municipal solid waste management systems that meets these requirements, based on a set of indicators clustered according to governance maturity.

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