Material and energy recovery in integrated waste management systems: A life-cycle costing approach

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 2102-2111

  Massarutto, Antonio ^a,b   Carli, Alessandro de ^b   Graffi, Matteo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Energy recovery; Externalities; Life cycle costing; Material recovery; Municipal solid waste; Separate collection

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RECOVERY; EXTERNALITIES; LIFE CYCLE COSTING; MATERIAL RECOVERY; SEPARATE COLLECTION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; LIFE CYCLE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RECOVERY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENERGY RECOVERY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; INCINERATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANDFILL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

MODELS, ECONOMIC; RENEWABLE ENERGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 79960958958     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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