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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 16, Pages 2125-2137Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2015.1022230
Keywords
incineration; recycling; landfill; greenhouse gases; energy recovery
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The European Union (EU) has 28 member states, each with very different characteristics (e.g. surface, population density, per capita gross domestic product, per capita municipal solid waste (MSW) production, MSW composition, MSW management options). In this paper several integrated waste management scenarios representative of the European situation have been generated and analysed in order to evaluate possible trends in the net emission of greenhouse gases and in the required landfill volume. The results demonstrate that an integrated system with a high level of separate collection, efficient energy recovery in waste-to-energy plants and very limited landfill disposal is the most effective according to the indices adopted. Moreover, it is evident that a fully integrated system can make MSW management a carbon sink with a potentiality of up to approximately [GRAPHICS] .
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