Responsibility for Regional Waste Generation: A Single-Region Extended Input–Output Analysis for Wales

Jensen, Christa D.; McIntyre, Stuart; Munday, Max; Turner, Karen

doi:10.1080/00343404.2011.599797

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“…; Jensen et al. ). However, these studies do not allow for the distinction between different waste types and treatment processes, economic sectors generating waste, and the goods and services whose production caused the waste.…”

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Solid Waste and the Circular Economy: A Global Analysis of Waste Treatment and Waste Footprints

Tisserant

Pauliuk

Merciai

et al. 2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Detailed and comprehensive accounts of waste generation and treatment form the quantitative basis of designing and assessing policy instruments for a circular economy (CE). We present a harmonized multiregional solid waste account, covering 48 world regions, 11 types of solid waste, and 12 waste treatment processes for the year 2007. The account is part of the physical layer of EXIOBASE v2, a multiregional supply and use table. EXIOBASE v2 was used to build a waste-input-output model of the world economy to quantify the solid waste footprint of national consumption. The global amount of recorded solid waste generated in 2007 was approximately 3.2 Gt (gigatonnes 1 ), of which 1 Gt was recycled or reused, 0.7 Gt was incinerated, gasified, composted, or used as aggregates, and 1.5 Gt was landfilled. Patterns of waste generation differ across countries, but a significant potential for closing material cycles exists in both high-and low-income countries. The European Union (EU), for example, needs to increase recycling by approximately 100 megatonnes per year (Mt/yr) and reduce landfilling by approximately 35 Mt/yr by 2030 to meet the targets set by the Action Plan for the Circular Economy. Solid waste footprints are strongly coupled with affluence, with income elasticities of around 1.3 for recycled waste, 2.2 for recovery waste, and 1.5 for landfilled waste, respectively. The EXIOBASE v2 solid waste account is based on statistics of recorded waste flows and therefore likely to underestimate actual waste flows. Keywords:circular economy consumption-based accounting industrial ecology multiregional input-output municipal solid waste waste input-output Supporting information is linked to this article on the JIE website Conflict of interest statement: The authors have no conflict to declare.

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“…). Only the studies by Beylot and colleagues (), Liao and colleagues (), Jensen and colleagues (), and Lee and colleagues () accounted for the amount of waste embodied in trade…”

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Solid Waste and the Circular Economy: A Global Analysis of Waste Treatment and Waste Footprints

Tisserant

Pauliuk

Merciai

et al. 2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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155

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“…This model allows to expand EEIOA in relation to the interdependence between goods and waste disposal. Several studies applied the WIOA model to measure the direct and indirect waste of consumption at national level, such as Taiwan, France, and UK (Jensen et al 2013;Liao et al 2015;Beylot et al 2016b;Salemdeeb et al 2016). In a study at sub-national scale, Tsukui et al (2011Tsukui et al ( , 2017 developed an interregional WIOA to quantify the embodied waste generated by consumption patterns in the city of Tokyo.…”

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Assessing circularity interventions: a review of EEIOA-based studies

Aguilar-Hernandez

Sigüenza-Sanchez

Donati

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In the early 1990s, the concept of circular economy was proposed by Pearce and Turner (1990) as a model to transform the traditional open-ended economy into an ongoing closed-loop system from a material perspective. Since then, several scholars and practitioners have adopted multiple definitions for circularity (Winans et al. 2017). After considering 114 conceptual frameworks, Kirchherr et al. (2017) define it as an economic system that substitutes product end-of-life with a set of circularity interventions.Circularity interventions are actions or processes that preserve resources inside the economy (Lieder and Rashid 2016a;Bocken et al. 2017). Such actions are based on three principles (Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2013;Ghisellini et al. 2016): AbstractEnvironmentally extended input-output analysis (EEIOA) can be applied to assess the economic and environmental implications of a transition towards a circular economy. In spite of the existence of several such applications, a systematic assessment of the opportunities and limitations of EEIOA to quantify the impacts of circularity strategies is currently missing. This article brings the current state of EEIOA-based studies for assessing circularity interventions up to date and is organised around four categories: residual waste management, closing supply chains, product lifetime extension, and resource efficiency. Our findings show that residual waste management can be modelled by increasing the amount of waste flows absorbed by the waste treatment sector. Closing supply chains can be modelled by adjusting input and output coefficients to reuse and recycling activities and specifying such actions in the EEIOA model if they are not explicitly presented. Product lifetime extension can be modelled by combining an adapted final demand with adjusted input coefficients in production. The impacts of resource efficiency can be modelled by lowering input coefficients for a given output. The major limitation we found was that most EEIOA studies are performed using monetary units, while circularity policies are usually defined in physical units. This problem affects all categories of circularity interventions, but is particularly relevant for residual waste management, due to the disconnect between the monetary and physical value of waste flows. For future research, we therefore suggest the incorporation of physical and hybrid tables in the assessment of circularity interventions when using EEIOA.

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“…Although similar in motivation to both Jensen et al (2012) and the WIO model, this chapter uses the commodity by industry framework and analyzes the current state of the U.S. hazardous waste economy. This research provides information that not only allows decisionmakers to choose between policies or programs aimed at reducing hazardous waste generation from the production or consumption sides of the economy, but also provides information on each perspective once this decision is made.…”

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The Three W's of Hazardous Waste: Who, Why, and Where?

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Munday on both my personal research agenda as a whole and on this dissertation. They were instrumental in helping me find the confidence to stick to my interest in waste and invaluable for their advice on U.K. data and practices. Finally, I should also acknowledge the support of my family. I was never afraid of failure knowing they were all always behind me. That, I believe, is the greatest gift a family could provide for each other. Early in life, my Mom and Dad taught me that through hard work and perserverance, I could accomplish anything. Thanks to their guidance and support, I am where I am today. I would also like to thank my husband for his steadfast belief in my ability to complete this dissertation, which was at times stronger than my own.

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Responsibility for Regional Waste Generation: A Single-Region Extended Input–Output Analysis for Wales

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Solid Waste and the Circular Economy: A Global Analysis of Waste Treatment and Waste Footprints

Solid Waste and the Circular Economy: A Global Analysis of Waste Treatment and Waste Footprints

Assessing circularity interventions: a review of EEIOA-based studies

The Three W's of Hazardous Waste: Who, Why, and Where?

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