The Impact of Tourism on Solid Waste Generation and Management Cost in Madeira Island for the Period 1996–2018

The tourism sector in Madeira represents 26.6% of the regional GDP and 16.7% of employment in the region. However, the sector is a source of adverse environmental impacts. One of the environmental repercussions of tourism, regarded as an externality, is the generation of solid waste. This paper aims to estimate the impact of tourist activities on solid waste generation in Madeira for the period 1996–2018. We used a fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) model, including annual tourism inflows data. The results show that tourist activities are responsible for 41.9% to 46.6% of solid waste generation per resident in Madeira. The empirical results also support the hypothesis that there is a non-linear effect of tourism on the generation of solid waste. The importance of internalising this negative externality caused by tourism with the implementation of appropriate economic instruments and policies is the main policy implication of the study.

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Influence of four socioeconomic indices and the impact of economic crisis on solid waste generation in Europe

Waste Management ◽

10.1016/j.wasman.2019.04.012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 190-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Konstantinos-Georgios Namlis ◽

Dimitrios Komilis

Keyword(s):

Solid Waste ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Waste Generation ◽

Solid Waste Generation ◽

The Impact

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Does China’s Municipal Solid Waste Source Separation Program Work? Evidence from the Spatial-Two-Stage-Least Squares Models

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12041664 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 1664 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liange Zhao ◽

Jianfeng Zou ◽

Zhijian Zhang

Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Spatial Interaction ◽

Source Separation ◽

Spillover Effect ◽

Absolute Amount ◽

Waste Generation ◽

Solid Waste Generation ◽

The Absolute ◽

The Impact

This paper evaluates the impact of the second municipal solid waste (MSW) source separation program on municipal solid waste generation (MSWG) in China. Without considering the spatial interactions between cities, the second MSW source separation program has a nonsignificant adverse effect on the per capita municipal solid waste generation (PMSWG). Relaxing the stable-unit-treatment-value assumption (SUTVA), which holds in most of the previous estimation literature on treatment effects, involving the spatial spillover effect among cities, as well as correcting the endogenous local policy has a significantly negative but not robust impact on the PMSWG. The estimation results of the generalized nesting spatial regression models (GNS) imply that the spatial interaction characteristics among Chinese prefecture-level cities may, if neglected, lead to underestimation of the reduction effects of the second MSW source separation policy on the absolute amount of PMSWG. More importantly, our study indicates that although not all the spatial econometric models support the significant reduction effect of source separation on the absolute amount of PMSWG, the source separation program significantly reduces the relative amount of PMSWG, and this result is robust in all spatial models.

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The effect of solid waste management investments in the Republic of Serbia

Anali Ekonomskog fakulteta u Subotici ◽

10.5937/aneksub2145133p ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 (45) ◽

pp. 133-146

Author(s):

Aleksandra Pavlović ◽

Andrea Ivanišević ◽

Ivana Katić ◽

Alpar Lošonc ◽

Mladen Radišić

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Animal Health ◽

Waste Reduction ◽

Waste Generation ◽

Solid Waste Generation ◽

The Republic ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The problem of establishing an effective solid waste management system is complex and still unresolved in Serbian municipalities, cities and settlements. Most landfills in Serbia do not meet basic sanitary standards and can often contain waste that is dangerous to human, plant and animal health, and waste that can be recycled is often dumped. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between waste generation and private investments in waste management. Statistical method of multiple linear regression was used to examine the impact of three predictors - economic development, investments in waste management, and urban population, on the dependent variable - municipal solid waste generation. The results of the research reveal that investments in waste management in Serbia do not have an effect on the waste reduction because the financial resources for such investments are not adequately managed. There is a large number of scientific researches that have dealt with the analysis of the mentioned relationship, however, their number on the example of Serbia is rather scarce. The results of the research could be useful to the state administrations of the Republic of Serbia.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Solid Waste Generation in the Perspectives of Socioeconomic and People’s Behavior: A Case Study in Serdang, Malaysia

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313045 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13045

Author(s):

Veknesh Arumugam ◽

Ismail Abdullah ◽

Irwan Syah Md Yusoff ◽

Nor Liza Abdullah ◽

Ramli Mohd Tahir ◽

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Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Phase 1 ◽

Movement Control ◽

Data Generation ◽

Waste Generation ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Solid Waste Generation ◽

The Impact

Malaysia has enforced several phases of Movement Control Order (MCO) as a quarantine period since 18 March 2020 with the intended purpose of containing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The quarantine has affected people’s daily lives with frequent job dismissal and retrenchment due to the struggling economic conditions of particularly small and medium businesses. This study aimed to understand the impact of MCO on solid waste management in Serdang, Selangor from the aspects of socioeconomic and people’s behavior. Solid waste generation data in Serdang, Selangor was collected by KDEB Waste Management through waste weighing daily throughout 2019 and 2020. The collection was conducted according to different housing areas of Serdang. The quantitative findings have recorded a decline of 9.94% in solid waste data generation subjected to COVID-19 lockdown. In conjunction with that, an online questionnaire participated by 310 respondents was conducted on understanding the effect of the lockdown on people’s behavior and socioeconomic aspect with respect to solid waste management. This study revealed that June onwards (after MCO Phase 1) generated the most solid waste. Indeed, solid waste generation due to MCO according to the waste refusal behavior is the consensus in favor of Malaysia’s appropriate need for stricter policies.

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