Review of household solid waste charges for developing countries – A focus on quantity-based charge methods

Welivita, Indunee; Wattage, Premachandra; Gunawardena, U.A.D.P.

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2015.08.018

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“…First, it identifies household preferences and measures the willingness to pay not only for MSW collection services, but also for the provision of service at the given date and time in each week, for which households are willing to pay additional 10-28% on top of what they pay for MSW management. Second, charging collection costs based on the volume of the waste that households generate may result in undesirable outcome of mid-night dumping in drainages and open space [32,33], determining fee based on house structure, mainly number of floors of the house as a proxy indicator of the volume of the waste may be an alternative approach, which may help cities to get additional resources for managing solid wastes properly. Third, city dwellers may collaborate with the cities for reducing the waste that goes to the dumping sites if the wastes collection service is synchronized with the households' effort of separating organic vs. other wastes, and composting the organic wastes instead of dumping in landfill sites.…”

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Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Kumar

Nepal

Khadayat³

et al. 2019

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Municipal solid waste management is one of the major challenges that cities in developing countries are facing. Although waste collection services are critical to build a smart city, the focus of both scholarship and action/activism has been more on the utilization of waste than on collection. We devised a choice experiment to elicit the preferences of municipal residents with regard to the various attributes of solid waste collection services in the Bharatpur Metropolitan City of Nepal. The study showed that households identify waste collection frequency, timing of door-to-door waste collection services, and cleanliness of the streets as the critical elements of municipal waste collection that affect their welfare and willingness to pay. While almost all households (95%) were participating in the waste collection service in the study area, more than half (53%) expressed dissatisfaction with the existing service. Women were the main actors engaged in waste collection and disposal at household level. The results of the choice analysis suggest that households prefer a designated waste collection time with waste collection bins placed at regular intervals on the streets for use by pedestrians who often throw garbage on the streets in the absence of bins. For these improvements, households were willing to pay an additional service fee of 10–28% on top of what they were already paying. The study also finds that municipal waste collection can be improved through the involvement of Tole Lane Committees in designing the timing and frequency of the service and by introducing a system of progressive tariffs based on the number of storeys per house.

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Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Kumar

Nepal

Khadayat³

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…The global population is rapidly growing so as the associated household and in-dustrial wastes. New patterns of lifestyle characterized by high-consumption behaviors, stemmed mainly from higher per capita income, have substantially increased quantities of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) of which Household Solid Wastes (HSW) contribute about 75% [1]. As an example, the three North American countries Canada, the US, and Mexico altogether generate nearly 265 million tons of organic waste annually [2] of which approximately 75 million tons are diverted to industrial-scale composting activities and the remaining 190 million tons are disposed in landfills.…”

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“…In doing so, the potential socio-economic benefits are numerous in terms of job creation, increase per capita GDP, and improve the environment and living conditions in cities [2]. Moreover, reducing volumes of HSW through fiscal/financial support schemes deemed a convenient approach to local authorities [1]. On this pretext, economic instruments such as collection service fees along with automated processing and sorting technology have been developed, commercialized, and implemented in many developed countries [6].…”

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Public Perceptions of MSW Management in Wroc&#322;aw City, Poland

Zyadin¹,

Natarajan²,

Kuittinen³

et al. 2020

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Elevating public awareness of waste management at the household level is a cost effective and a win-win social, economic and environmental approach on the table of policymaking. Modern and effective waste management bring about broader economic efficiency and social equity, mitigate consumerism, thus, promoting the conservation of natural resources. In this article, a survey study was conducted among the citizens of Wrocław city, Poland. The city is dynamic, touristic, and industrial. Through random sampling, 160 respondents filled in the questionnaire. The results revealed that the participants appeared aware of the benefits of waste management (WM); however the current WM systems and infrastructures are not very satisfying. The participants identified several shortcomings in the current WM systems such as the lack of sufficient colored bins for glass recycling, overfilled bins and heavy lids, and irregular waste collection system. The study proposes a public-oriented outreach campaign targeting waste separation and less-waste behaviors as economically and environmentally beneficial, accompanied by continuous development of WM regulations and infrastructures and linked it to waste-to-energy systems and technologies to assist in achieving the long-term energy and emissions-reduction targets.

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“…O rápido e constante aumento populacional e a evolução econômica têm provocado grandes desafios aos governos locais, como o crescimento na geração de resíduos sólidos urbanos (RSU) (Welivita, et al, 2015;Chong, et al, 2016;Pisani Jr, et al, 2017;Wang, et al, 2018). Ao analisar essa tendência de crescimento, a UNEP (2015), informou que as cidades começaram a gerar anualmente cerca de 2 bilhões de toneladas de RSU a partir 2015.…”

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Análise da Gestão da Coleta e Transporte dos RSU do Município de Castanhal – PA

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Analisa a gestão da coleta e transporte dos Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos (RSU) do município de Castanhal em 2019. A pesquisa é do tipo descritiva exploratória e foi desenvolvida em 3 etapas. Foram verificados os instrumentos de planejamento do setor de RSU no município (etapa 1), analisados os aspectos operacionais da coleta e transporte dos RSU (etapa 2) e sistematizados e analisados os custos operacionais com os veículos coletores (etapa 3). Os resultados permitiram identificar que o Plano Municipal de Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Sólidos (PMGIRS) não foi elaborado e que existiam deficiências na prestação do serviço, como a falta de informações dos limites dos setores, itinerários, percursos e tempos de coleta produtiva, improdutiva e de transporte. Também foi constatado que 17 veículos coletores não estavam em condições de operar (80,95% da frota) e que 43 dos 119 funcionários poderiam ser realocados em outras atividades (36,13% da guarnição). A conclusão da pesquisa é que as deficiências operacionais contribuíram para o custo total dos veículos coletores de R$ 2.159.985,30 (2019), valor 211,75% maior que o arrecadado com a taxa de serviços urbanos (TSU), constante do IPTU para o gerenciamento do setor de RSU (R$692.863,81). Também foi verificada a necessidade de planejamento técnico para melhorar a eficiência e reduzir os custos na prestação do serviço de coleta e transporte de RSU no município de Castanhal.

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Review of household solid waste charges for developing countries – A focus on quantity-based charge methods

Cited by 56 publications

References 41 publications

Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Public Perceptions of MSW Management in Wroc&#322;aw City, Poland

Análise da Gestão da Coleta e Transporte dos RSU do Município de Castanhal – PA

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Review of household solid waste charges for developing countries – A focus on quantity-based charge methods

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Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Public Perceptions of MSW Management in Wroc&amp;#322;aw City, Poland

Análise da Gestão da Coleta e Transporte dos RSU do Município de Castanhal – PA

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