Let the citizens speak: an empirical economic analysis of domestic organic waste for community composting in Tuscany

Basili Marcello; Valentina Di Gennaro; Silvia Ferrini

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127263

Let the citizens speak: an empirical economic analysis of domestic organic waste for community composting in Tuscany

Basili Marcello, Valentina Di Gennaro, Silvia Ferrini

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Organic waste represents an opportunity and a challenge for policy decision makers and lately the attention has been focusing on community composting practices identifying the environmental and/or economic aspects. Evidence of citizens’ attitudes and preferences is scarce, and this paper aims to fill this gap. The results of a contingent valuation survey in three councils of the Province of Siena, Tuscany (Italy) are reported along with an extended cost-benefit analysis. Results echo previous findings that GHGs emissions and money-saving for all municipalities are positive and encouraging; moreover, our study proves that citizens are keen to switch to the community recycling composter system. Citizens present heterogeneous preferences and accordingly to the current waste management system they might need a small financial compensation to switch in favour of the local community system.

Original language	English
Article number	127263
Journal	Journal of Cleaner Production
Volume	306
Early online date	25 Apr 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127263
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2021

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