Municipal Solid Waste Management services and its funding in Spain

Regarding Madrid specifically, the paper analyses the relationship between its Waste-collection-treatment-disposal charges and some possibly (in-)dependent variables. Relationships between MSW generated and some potentially-linked variables are identified. Analysis rejects that Madrid waste generation-treatment-disposal charges based on dwelling values had a positive relationship with waste generated (more value of the properties in a district does not imply more waste generated), and reveals/-confirms other significant correlations between some variables, it being remarkable that neither age, gender, nationality nor education were found relevant. Conclusions - such as the soundness of the suggested use of the number of dwellings per district as a suitable indicator for the level of waste generated (and its required funding) and the inexistence of a conventional Pay As You Throw system in Madrid - are offered with some policy implications-considerations.