Let the citizens speak: An empirical economic analysis of domestic organic waste for community composting in Tuscany

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:306

Article

Marcello, Basili¹  Di Gennaro, Valentina¹  Ferrini, Silvia^2,3 

[1] Univ Siena, Dept Econ Stat, I-53100 Siena, IT, Italy

[2] Univ Siena, Dept Polit Sci & Int, Via Mattioli, I-53100 Siena, Italy

[3] Univ East Anglia, CSERGE, Norwich, Norfolk, England

关键词: Community composting;    Domestic organic waste;    Recycling;    Sustainable development;    Citizens behaviour;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127263

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Organic waste represents an opportunity and a challenge for policy decision makers and lately the attention has been focusing on community composting practices identifying the environmental and/or economic aspects. Evidence of citizens' attitudes and preferences is scarce, and this paper aims to fill this gap. The results of a contingent valuation survey in three councils of the Province of Siena, Tuscany (Italy) are reported along with an extended cost-benefit analysis. Results echo previous findings that GHGs emissions and money-saving for all municipalities are positive and encouraging; moreover, our study proves that citizens are keen to switch to the community recycling composter system. Citizens present heterogeneous preferences and accordingly to the current waste management system they might need a small financial compensation to switch in favour of the local community system. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

【 授权许可】

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