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

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Article number127263
JournalJournal of Cleaner Production
Volume306
Early online date25 Apr 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2021

Keywords

  • Citizens behaviour
  • Community composting
  • Domestic organic waste
  • Recycling
  • Sustainable development

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