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References (2)
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R. Turner (1991)
Municipal Solid Waste Management: an economic perspective -
R. Turner (1983)
Household waste : separate collection and recycling
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 0956-6163
- DOI
- 10.1108/09566169110000682
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Future waste management in the UK will have to address the problemof rising costs of waste disposal. The current financial costs oflandfill disposal represent an under pricing of the waste assimilativecapacity of the environment. Economic, social and political pressuresover the coming decade will serve to force up disposal costs closer tothe true economic cost to society. The cost rise will haveimportant positive ramifications for waste minimisation and wasterecycling. It is argued that rational decision making in the wastemanagement context has been made more difficult in the UK because of aseries of failures information failure lack of systemsthinking institutional failure lack of economic costbenefit thinking.
Journal
Environmental Management and Health – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jan 1, 1991