It is only recently that EU policies have started defining targets for waste reduction despite
waste prevention being at the top of the 'waste hierarchy'. Against this backdrop, we …

Waste management policies aim to divert waste from lower positions on the waste hierarchy
such as landfill and incineration to higher positions in the hierarchy such as energy recovery …

Swedish legislation makes municipalities responsible for recycling or disposing of
household waste. Municipalities therefore play an important role in achieving Sweden's …

Abstract Using a large 2012–2015 cross-sectional dataset for all 279 municipalities in
Tuscany, Italy (the location of the first municipality in Europe to adopt a zero-waste strategy …

Waste management and disposal are influenced by socio-economic, institutional and policy
factors that possess idiosyncratic features in regional settings. The role of organized crime is …

This article provides an assessment of waste management evolution in Portugal, with a
particular emphasis on the performance brought by the adoption of several EPR schemes …

By using a novel database that observes 1,497 municipalities from the Lombardy region in
Italy between 2005 and 2011, this paper provides an empirical test of the Waste Kuznets …

This study analyzes the association between the environmental performance of waste
management and occurrences of corruption and maladministration. Italy is considered one …

This paper aims to evaluate the extent to which current Italian legislation has been able to
achieve the goals set for separate waste collection within the context of the ongoing revision …

Environmental policy is often formulated at the national level, but the primary responsibilities
for policy implementation, monitoring and compliance are often assigned to local actors (eg …