Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8870055 | Waste Management | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Results show on one hand, that environmental behaviour of waste management in a door-to-door selective collection programme significantly improves the behaviour of the overall waste management system. Consequently, the potential to reduce the existing environmental impact based on citizens' increased participation in selective collection is evidenced, so the implementation of awareness-raising campaigns should be one of the main issues of the next policies on solid waste. On the other hand, increasing the amount of recyclable wastes collected selectively, implementing alternative methods for valorising the organic fraction (compost/biomethanization) and improving the efficiency of the transportation stage by means of optimizing vehicles or routes, are essential actions to reduce the overall net environmental impact generated by the MSWM system.
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Authors
Valeria Ibáñez-Forés, MarÃa D. Bovea, Claudia Coutinho-Nóbrega, Hozana R. de Medeiros-GarcÃa, Raissa Barreto-Lins,