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Waste Management & Research, Vol. 16, No. 3, 253-262 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X9801600307

Assessing the economic and environmental performance of municipal solid waste collection and sorting programmes

C. Courcelle

Centre Entreprise - Environnement, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Universté Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

M.-P. Kestemont

Centre Entreprise - Environnement, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Universté Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

D. Tyteca

Centre Entreprise - Environnement, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Universté Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

M. Installé

Centre d'Ingénierie des Systemes, d'Automatique et de Mécanique Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The objective of this paper is to assess the economic and envi ronmental performance of municipal multi-material waste collection and sorting programmes, and their contribution to sustainable development. These programmes collect and sort household waste in order to recover materials that are consid ered to be desirable "outputs" of the process. However, recov ery procedures also generate "undesirable outputs" such as pollution, noise and residues. To account for different aspects in a performance measure, the concept of "productive effi ciency" is used. The feasibility of a non-parametric approach to productive efficiency is illustrated and substantiated, including economic and environmental variables in assessing the performances of nine waste collection and sorting pro grammes from European municipalities.


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