Selecting sustainable waste-to-energy technologies for municipal solid waste treatment: a game theory approach for group decision-making

Soltani, Atousa; Sadiq, Rehan; Hewage, Kasun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.041

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“…When trying to attain the goals of waste management, what are always required are tailor-made, regionally adopted, and cost-efficient concepts fitting the various levels and dimensions of social needs. More importantly, they are likely going to be backed by the stakeholders and citizens as ways to solve their existing issues [22][23][24]. Since MSW management involves the whole elements of collection, transport, disposal and treatment of waste, along with regulation and monitoring of the waste management process, there are many intertwined factors which influence this complicated process in regard to more sustainable MSW management.…”

Section: Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

Tsui

Wong

2019

Waste Dispos. Sustain. Energy

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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has emerged as probably the most pressing issue many governments nowadays are facing. Traditionally, Waste-to-Energy(WtE) is mostly associated with incineration, but now, with the emergence of the bioeconomy, it embraces a broader definition comprising any processing technique that can generate electricity/heat or produce a waste-derived fuel. Under the ambit of the circular economy many nations are looking for, additional effort must be made to be sure of acquiring the most updated information and paving a sustainable path for managing MSW in such a frame. In this regard, we have undertaken a critical review of various technologies, with their updated progress, involved in the exploitation of MSW as a renewable resource, along with the critical advantages and limitations on energy and material cycling for sustainable MSW management. Incineration, the most widely used method, is nowadays difficult to further apply due to its dubious reputation and social opposition. Meanwhile, to address the organic fraction of MSW which currently is mostly unrecycled and causes disposal issues, the biological approach presents an attractive option. The new emphasis of bioeconomy leads us to understand how environmental biotechnologies should be better connected/integrated for more sustainable MSW management. This article is concluded with advances of future prospects, which can serve as a timely reminder to encourage competent authorities/researchers to work towards further improvement of the present MSW management system.

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Section: Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

Tsui

Wong

2019

Waste Dispos. Sustain. Energy

137

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“…In multi-stakeholder cooperative situations, such as life cycle management, water resource sharing or waste management, the outcome is affected by the decisions made by every player (Karmperis et al, 2013). Waste management decisions such as selecting a new landfill site (Cheng et al, 2003), division of waste management costs (Moretti, 2004), waste disposal (Jørgensen, 2010), selection of sustainable waste treatment options (Soltani et al, 2016) and water resource management decisions such as sanitation (Leoneti and Pires, 2017) have been modeled as cooperative games.…”

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Corporate sustainability interactions: A game theoretical approach to sustainability actions

Uşar

Denizel

Soytas

2019

International Journal of Production Economics

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A B S T R A C TRecent global developments lead companies to include into their strategic plans not only economic sustainability but environmental and social sustainability as well. Companies have been investing in environmental and social sustainability to meet stakeholder demand and/or regulatory demands. Considering this as a market mechanism, we view the sustainability actions of companies as interrelated strategic decisions and propose a Stackelberg game to model the effects of competition for sustainability and sustainability spillovers over the sustainability outcomes of companies. We provide equilibrium solutions for the one leader, two followers game over different intervals of competition levels and spillover rates. Using a numerical example, we observe how the sustainability investments and net benefits change as competition levels and spillover rates change and identify the competition-spillover regions, where each player invests the most and has the advantage in terms of benefit. We discuss implications for both the companies and the policy makers.

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“…Future costs and benefits (recurrent or one-time) are discounted to present values using Equation (5) [70].…”

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Quick Green Scan: A Methodology for Improving Green Performance in Terms of Manufacturing Processes

Kluczek

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The heating sector has begun implementing technologies and practices to tackle the environmental and social-economic problems caused by their production process. The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology, "the Quick-Green-Scan", that caters for the need of quick assessment decision-makers to improve green manufacturing performance in companies that produce heating devices. The study uses a structured approach that integrates Life Cycle Assessment-based indicators, framework and linguistic scales (fuzzy numbers) to evaluate the extent of greening of the enterprise. The evaluation criteria and indicators are closely related to the current state of technology, which can be improved. The proposed methodology has been created to answer the question whether a company acts on the opportunity to be green and whether these actions are contributing towards greening, maintaining the status quo or moving away from a green outcome. Results show that applying the proposed improvements in processes helps move the facility towards being a green enterprise. Moreover, the methodology, being particularly quick and simple, is a practical tool for benchmarking, not only in the heating industry, but also proves useful in providing comparisons for facility performance in other manufacturing sectors.

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Selecting sustainable waste-to-energy technologies for municipal solid waste treatment: a game theory approach for group decision-making

Cited by 95 publications

References 30 publications

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

Corporate sustainability interactions: A game theoretical approach to sustainability actions

Quick Green Scan: A Methodology for Improving Green Performance in Terms of Manufacturing Processes

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