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Environmental evaluation of municipal waste prevention

Gentil, Emmanuel C., Gallo, Daniele, Christensen, Thomas H.·2011·Waste Management
DOI 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.07.030
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Abstract

Waste prevention has been addressed in the literature in terms of the social and behavioural aspects, but very little quantitative assessment exists of the environmental benefits. Our study evaluates the environmental consequences of waste prevention on waste management systems and on the wider society, using life-cycle thinking. The partial prevention of unsolicited mail, beverage packaging and food waste is tested for a "High-tech" waste management system relying on high energy and material recovery and for a "Low-tech" waste management system with less recycling and relying on landfilling. Prevention of 13% of the waste mass entering the waste management system generates a reduction of loads and savings in the waste management system for the different impacts categories; 45% net reduction for nutrient enrichment and 12% reduction for global warming potential. When expanding our system and including avoided production incurred by the prevention measures, large savings are observed (15-fold improvement for nutrient enrichment and 2-fold for global warming potential). Prevention of food waste has the highest environmental impact saving. Prevention generates relatively higher overall relative benefit for "Low-tech" systems depending on landfilling. The paper provides clear evidence of the environmental benefits of waste prevention and has specific relevance in climate change mitigation.

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  1. OECD, 2002. OECD workshop on waste prevention: toward performance indicators (No. ENV/EPOC/WGWPR/SE(2002)1/FINAL). Paris, France.
  2. Salhofer, S., Fröhlich, M., Schneider, F., 2007. How can we assess the effects from municipal waste prevention activities?, in: Proceedings Sardinia 2007, Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium. Presented at the Sardinia 2007, Cagliari, Italy.
  3. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, 2008, Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives, Official Journal, 312, 3

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Authors
Gentil, E. C., Gallo, D., & Christensen, T. H.
Affiliations
Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Corresponding author
Christensen, Thomas H.
ORCID
Christensen, Thomas H.
Venue
Waste Management
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-12
Volume
31
Issue
12
Pages
2371-2379
ISSN
0956-053X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.wasman.2011.07.030
OpenAlex
W2100682727
Cited by
172
References
24
Citations by year
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FWCI
19.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Waste Management (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
Keywords
waste prevention, municipal solid waste, environmental impact assessment, life cycle assessment, unsolicited mail, beverage packaging, food waste, waste management systems, landfilling, recycling, nutrient enrichment, global warming potential, climate change mitigation
MeSH terms
Environment, Garbage, Models, Theoretical, Waste Products, Waste Management, Product Packaging, Climate Change, Recycling

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