scholarly journals Economies of private sector participation in solid waste management in Takoradi - a Ghanaian city

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
RD Dinye
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector Participation

scholarly journals Public-Private Sector Involvement in Providing Efficient Solid Waste Management Services in Nigeria

Recycling ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olukanni ◽  
Nwafor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
Private Sector Involvement

This paper reviews the partnership between the public and the private sectors in providing efficient solid waste management (SWM) services. While the responsibility of providing SWM services lies with the public sector, the sector has not been able to meet the demand for efficient service delivery, especially in developing countries. In a bid to increase efficiency and lower costs incurred in rendering these services, the involvement of the private sector has been sought. With a focus on major Nigerian cities, partnerships between the local government and private operators in SWM have been analysed based on the level to which the partnership has improved the SWM services. This paper provides an understanding that the success of any public-private partnership relies on the extent to which all stakeholders perform their duties. If the public sector is slack in monitoring and supervising the activities of the private operators, the latter may focus on profit generation while neglecting efficient service delivery. Also, legislation is an important part of SWM. Without the right legislation and enforcement, waste generators will not be mandated to dispose their waste properly. The public sector as a facilitator is responsible for creating an environment for private operators to function, particularly through legislation, enforcement and public sensitization.

Solid Waste Management in the Context of Public Policies and Private Sector Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Gamze Yıldız Şeren
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Important Position

Public policies have undoubtedly a very important position in the economy. The environmental economy is a phenomenon that requires intervention in the market through public policies. This is because environmental problems need to be intervened with public policy tools because they have the characteristics of externalities and are public goods. Accordingly, waste management is a subject of environmental economics, at which point public policies come into play particularly at the level of local governments and gain importance. However, this is not only a matter of public policies but also requires the active involvement of the private sector and social participation. The participation of society and non-governmental organizations, as well as public and private partnerships plays a pivotal role in the effective management of this process because it is difficult to understand the significance of solid waste management for a society that has not completed its intellectual and cultural education.

scholarly journals Performance Assessment of Solid Waste Management following Private Partnership Operations in Lagos State, Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agboje Ifeoma Anestina ◽  
Adeoti Adetola ◽  
Irhivben Bright Odafe
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Regulatory Agency ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Private Sector Participation ◽  
Lagos State

The strategy of delivering modern, high quality public services and promoting competition in the waste management sector leads to formation of private sector participation (PSP) to handle solid waste management in Lagos State. The findings depict that quality of service among the PSP operators recorded high success in the high income areas than those of the low and medium income areas. On the average, industry productivity was 6.63 tonnes per day per vehicle. 18 out of 30 companies in the study area were above this average and in meeting increased productivity, year of experience in operations, number of trips made, number of times trucks were serviced, and adhering to regulatory agency requirement were among the factors influencing company’s productivity in the state. The study, therefore, recommends that regulatory agency should be more aggressive in playing its statutory roles of managing the PSP operators.

scholarly journals Partnership towards Synergistic Municipal Solid Waste Management Services in a Coastal Tourism Sub-Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Surasak Jotaworn ◽  
Vilas Nitivattananon ◽  
Kyoko Kusakabe ◽  
Wenchao Xue
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
The Public

Solid waste generated on land could potentially contribute continuously to marine waste, with current municipal solid waste management (MSWM) focusing on human-related activities as the main source. While there has been challenges and opportunities in the MSWM’s partnership in the growing waste generation for the coastal tourism area, the aim of this study is to explore public and private sectors as the key players to identify challenges, opportunities, and need for further analysis of the synergistic MSWM services in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Thailand. A mixed-method approach was adopted, including primary data collected through semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys. Content analysis, descriptive statistics, and chi-square tests were applied. The results show that the public sector has different MSWM strategies—with public-private partnership (PPP) and without PPP, with many challenges in the EEC region—while the private sector has a lot of potential for MSWM effectiveness. The synergistic opportunities from both sectors can therefore be considered for possible integration into four aspects: challenging synergies within the public sector, potential synergies via the private sector, synergies with a cross-sectoral partnership, and synergies through other types of partnership. Additionally, a synergic partnership was another appropriate approach for MSWM services enhancement.

A Comprehensive Sustainability Assessment Framework for Ex-Post Evaluation of Private Sector Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Sandhu ◽  
Paul Burton ◽  
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Private Sector Participation ◽  
Indian Cities

Within the gamut of the neo-liberal economic ideology, private sector participation in urban service delivery is visualised as the ultimate solution to efficient and sustainable provision of the same. While private sector participation is being pushed vigorously in municipal solid waste management in Indian cities, there is a critical gap of literature related to its performance from a holistic dimension of sustainability. A robust study can only be conducted if the sustainability assessment criteria and indicators are expansively framed to enable critical studies to take place. Based upon a detailed analysis of existing literature on private sector participation in both generic and specific contexts of municipal solid waste, this paper elaborates on a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework for ex-post evaluation of private sector participation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management in the context of Indian cities but which is also possible to replicate or remodel as per contextual requirement in other developing countries.

Public/Private Competition in Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Alternatives to Flow Control

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-154
Author(s):  
William M. Leavitt ◽  
John S. Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Flow Control ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
The Face

Profound changes are occurring in municipal solid waste management as a result of the 1994 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down solid waste flow control ordinances. Local governments have scrambled to find alternatives to flow control in the face of increasing competition from private sector waste management firms. This article details the case of the Southeastern Public Service Authority's efforts to develop feasible alternatives to flow control and strategies for dealing with private sector competition in solid waste collection and disposal. These strategies may serve as a useful model for municipal solid waste agencies in the post-Carbone era.

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