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Evaluating Landfill Diversion Strategies for Municipal Organic Waste (MOW) Management Using Environmental and Economic Factors

12 November 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

We apply systems engineering principals and life cycle analysis (LCA) to municipal waste supply chains to elucidate sustainability incentives. Environmental impacts are quantified using LCA for waste management technologies available in the supply chain, and included as products. The supply chain is modeled as a coordinated market and resolved using mathematical optimization techniques. Incorporating impacts as products allows us to analyze the influence of tax policy on optimal waste management strategies.

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Organic waste management
Landfill diversion
Compost
Anaerobic digestion

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Evaluating Landfill Diversion Strategies for Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Environmental and Economic Factors [opens in a new tab]
Philip Tominac, Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Joseph Sanford, Rebecca Larson, Victor Zavala journal article
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering , Volume 9, Issue 1
Online publication date: Dec 31, 2020

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Nov 12, 2020 Version 1

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.13224734.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.13224734.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Author’s competing interest statement

The authors have no apparent or existing conflict of interest that would bias or appear to bias this work.

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