In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved
complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives …

Indicators have been used to evaluate municipal solid waste management for several
decades. This review summarizes the main groups of indicators used for this purpose, as the …

This paper addresses a major problem in international solid waste management, which is
twofold: a lack of data, and a lack of consistent data to allow comparison between cities. The …

A significant portion of the solid waste filling landfills worldwide is debris from construction
and demolition projects. Across the world, a significant portion of the solid waste filling …

Abstract Tools based on Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) are routinely used to assess the
environmental and economic performance of integrated municipal solid waste (MSW) …

How is the performance of waste management systems (WMS) assessed globally? In order
to answer this question, 366 peer-reviewed research articles in English, which assessed the …

Densely populated areas with large incoming populations have difficulty achieving high
separate collection rates of municipal solid waste. The manuscript analyzes the link between …

Solid waste management is a significant issue for sustainable development that involves the
technical, socioeconomic, legal, ecological, political, and even cultural components. For this …

Human activities are considered among the main producers of any kind of pollution. This
paper, through a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model analyses, focuses …

This study analyzed, through bibliometrics, state-of-the-art municipal solid waste indicators
by consulting key articles on the subject from prominent authors and institutions. A content …