Proper solid waste management (SWM) is critical for sustainable environmental development. Despite high-level policy efforts and technical investments, unmanaged solid waste remains a problem in many developing countries including Ghana. The quantity of waste generated is increasing in rural...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the need to adopt a restorative and regenerative model proposed by circular economy (CE). Methods: This article aims to identify the current status of packaging waste management in the CE context through an integrative literature review using...

Purpose - The aim of this article is to specify the determining factors behind the decision to adopt either an internal or external means of the household waste management service in Moroccan local authorities (LAs), particularly in the "communes". Research methodology - The methodology applied...

Waste-to-energy (WtE) is a waste treatment process that incinerates waste to produce energy in the form of electricity and/or heat. WtE is considered one of the most environmentally-friendly methods of dealing with residual waste. The alternative to this process is waste dumping or landfilling,...

Pro-environmental waste disposal behavior plays a fundamental role in improving rural waste management and rural livability. Recent years have witnessed an increased social, political and academic interest in the influencing mechanism of pro-environmental waste disposal behavior. In particular,...

The paper compares the efficiency of alternative municipal solid waste management business models: a single provider against multiple providers. The drivers of municipal solid waste management costs are analysed to test the impact of the scale and scope of municipal solid waste management...

Drawing insights from the stakeholder and legitimacy theory, we investigate the role of audit quality in promoting sustainable waste management in firms. Using a sample of 8,100 firm-year observations for the period 2002‒2017 from 34 countries, we provide empirical evidence that good audit...

Municipal solid waste disposal and its sustainable management in China have undergone significant evolution since 2000. However, China has a vast land area and significant socioeconomic and geographical disparities across the country, and the strategy of waste management on the national scale...

Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim is one of the largest town in the state, located in the eastern Himalayan Region of the Indian state of Sikkim. Present paper aims to portray and enlighten the current waste management and practices in Gangtok. Reviews, the lately planned solid waste management...

The study analyzes the legal regulation of the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes provided for by the Bamako Convention (regional), in comparison with the regime of the Basel Convention (universal). It has been established that thanks to the Bamako Convention, the standards for...

Abstract: Background: The interest in the topic of performance assessment in reverse supply chains (RSC) is increasing, although the body of research is still in its early stages. As this is a developing field, it is crucial to expand discussions on topics that have not yet been thoroughly...

Consumer attitudes towards the unlawful disposal of solid waste products in Ghana, particularly Sunyani, continue to be a challenge. The study is based on the attribution theory. A sample size of seven hundred and twenty-seven (727) was selected through convenience sampling. Data collected were...

The rapid evolution of the IoT has led to various research challenges for improving smart city applications. Owing to the characteristics and virtues of IoT services, waste management has emerged as a prominent issue in today's society. An undiscerning illegal eviction of waste, lack of waste...

Over the past decades, research on the established linkages between solid waste management and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) has not progressed sufficiently. This influences the relevant statutory bodies to design an effective solid waste management system to create a safe work...

We consider households decision of whether to recycle within a theoretical framework that allows for the inclusion of social and moral motivations and analyze how unit pricing and mandatory recycling a⁄ect the equilibrium in terms of whether and, in the presence of heterogenous households, the...

I quantify the welfare effects of international trade in waste by building a structural gravity model in which waste generation is a byproduct of manufacturing and waste is input to recycling. My estimates reveal that low-value waste is more sensitive to trade barriers than high-value waste,...

In South Africa, household waste management is a significant challenge in informal settlements, as most of these lack basic waste management infrastructure, and the government's waste management services are limited. Understanding waste management behaviour is therefore critical in addressing...

Municipal household waste management (MHWM) is of great importance for both urban governance and sustainable development. Currently, Chinese governments at all levels are making great effort to implement MHWM by waste classification and recycling (WCR). However, the pursuit of self-interest by...

The impact of municipal solid waste has surpassed local and regional boundaries and has become a global challenge, with mounting public health, environmental, social, and economic costs. In this context, there is an imperative need to move on from the traditional linear economic model...

The short article suggests that waste, in its many forms, should be considered a resource and that the economy of waste, supported by digital technologies, could represent a significant opportunity for sustainable and circular growth. Wasting waste is increasingly an unethical and uneconomic choice

Successive stories of waste classification and processing system in reducing emission and saving natural resource encourages many developing countries to introduce such system. In this waste collection system, the solid waste is classified at the drop-off centers in communities, transported to...

Successive Irish government policies followed a neoliberal approach and domestic waste services have been transformed to such an extent that in early 2021, one company was valued at over €1 billion. The last three decades has seen domestic waste services in the Ireland evolve from a public...

Extant literature on board gender diversity focuses on the main pillars of sustainability while ignoring the important subdimension – waste management. Using a sample of 8,365 firm-year observations for the period 2002–2017 from 37 countries, we provide novel empirical evidence that board...

With the large-scale development of shale gas, oil-based drilling fluids are widely used, generating significant amounts of solid wastes from oil-based shale drilling cutting (OBSDC), which are difficult to degrade and biologically toxic. The current treatment methods do not meet the...

Fluoride and silica contamination in water is a worldwide issue due to the wastewater discharge from semiconductor industry. Coagulation-ultrafiltration (UF) process is commonly used to treat semiconductor wastewater, but requires excessive amounts of coagulant/flocculant. In this study, an...

The solid residues obtained after subjecting Municipality Solid Waste Residue (MSWR) to hydrothermal treatment were blended (50:50) with the 1.5g/cm3 density-separated fraction of discard coal. Co-pyrolysis experiments were conducted using a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) in a temperature...

I analyze anomalies in the data collected by the major COVID-19 data repositories. These anomalies are due to how the data is aggregated. I find that the method used tends to understate the rise in the infection rate, overstate the fall after the peak, and generate spurious peaks and drops. As a...

The municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and disposal are one of the significant environmental problems in both urban and rural communities due to the increasing population especially in developing countries and the lack or absence of a proper waste management service. The present work aims to...

Trade barriers can exist variably and are not just limited to tariffs. Based on a bilateraltrade model under international oligopolistic competition, we show that governments endogenouslydetermine red-tape barriers (RTBs), which are trade barriers caused by wastefuladministrative procedures. We...

This article explores the behavioral spillover effects of the mandatory municipal solid waste classification plan (MSWCP) in China. This policy mandated separation of organic waste from other non-recyclable waste. Administrative data in Shanghai indicates the MSWCP led to a higher organic waste...