Sustainable Solid Waste Management in the European Union: Four Countries Regional Analysis

Elisa Chioatto (), Muhammad Attiq Khan and Paolo Sospiro
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Elisa Chioatto: University of Ferrara – Department of Economics and Management (Ferrara, Italy); SEEDS
Muhammad Attiq Khan: Ca’ Foscari University
Paolo Sospiro: University of Florence - Department of Engineering

No 322, SEEDS Working Papers from SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies

Abstract: In the last twenty years, the EU has framed a comprehensive regulatory action aimed at shifting Waste Management practices to Sustainable Waste Management systems. The first premise is to foster waste prevention, and secondly to better treat waste residuals by promoting recycling practices. In a previous work, the authors qualitatively analysed the policies, criteria, methodologies and outcomes state-of-art of four EU-Member States (France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands) in the transition from Waste Management to Sustainable Waste Management to Circular Economy. The study highlighted overall positive results, which are driving EU countries towards higher Municipal Solid Waste recycling rates and low dumping. This paper makes a step forward, by investigating Municipal Waste Management performances at regional level in the same EU-Member States. Specifically, it aims at assessing whether national data (outlined by the previous work) are homogenously distributed at regional stage, in order to understand how legislation is effectively applied within countries and identifying best and worse performers. The results confirm that Northern European countries have to a greater extent moved away from landfill in favour of higher recycling rates. Conversely, Italy and France are those displaying lower performances but with progressive improvements.

Keywords: Municipal Waste Management; EU Comparative Analysis; NUTS2 Regional classification; Circular Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2022-01, Revised 2022-01
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