Cost benefit analysis of separeted municipal waste collection
- Authors: Albin RAKAR, Neža KODRE
- Citation: Acta hydrotechnica, vol. 23, no. 39, pp. 129-150, 2005.
- Abstract: In the last quarter of the previous century the treatment of all kinds of waste became an outstanding problem, which compelled individual, mostly well-developed countries into the preparation of appropriate policies at state and local levels. The priority goals were as a rule: source reduction, separated waste collection, recycling, re-use of waste and its safe and reliable removal. In the paper, separated waste collection and household waste processing are discussed in detail, whereas the economic aspects were given special consideration. In that regard, the criterion for establishing the economic justification of separated municipal waste collection was proposed, written in the form of a model and empirically tested in the supply areas of the Vrhnika and Borovnica communities. As it is evident form the results of the research the costs of treating separately collected fractions in Waste Management Centres were on average only 0.05 EUR/kg, and 0.08 EUR/kg taking into account the collection and removal costs. The total costs of mixed collection and removal of waste would be 0.15 EUR/kg, being 0.08 EUR/kg more or 2.02 times the amount. Thus, separate collection in this particular case means a saving of 0.08 EUR per kg of the waste disposed in containers. By introduction of additional variables, the model could be expanded from the local to the regional level.
- Keywords: municipal waste, separated waste collection, economic aspects
- Full text: a39ar.pdf