Assessing the collection of Urban solid wastes: A step towards municipality benchmarking

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 397-409

  Karagiannidis, A ^a   Xirogiannopoulou, A ^a   Perkoulidis, G ^a   Moussiopoulos, N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Municipality benchmarking; Performance indicators; Waste collection assessment

Indexed keywords

SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 5644220481     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WAFO.0000044813.50757.a7     Document Type: Article

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