Viable eco-efficiency targets for waste collection communities.

ABSTRACT: Waste management is crucial for advancing the circular economy, and Italy has begun to address this issue by organizing municipalities into collaborative communities of municipalities, named ATOs. In this paper, we propose a quantitative approach based on conditional efficiency analysis to estimate viable eco-efficiency targets for these waste collection communities. The proposed targets are both eco-efficient, because they reflect optimal resource allocation within the eco-efficiency framework, and viable, because they consider the unique specificities of each waste community. The methodology determines a pathway or direction for municipalities to reach the eco-efficiency frontier based on specific external factors, ensuring that each municipality is benchmarked against others with simila

SUBMITTER: Daraio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11217406 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature