Projecting municipal solid waste: The case of Hong Kong SAR

Shan Shan Chung

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2010, vol. 54, issue 11, 759-768

Abstract: Waste projection informs waste policy making and is an indispensable process in waste management planning. Between the two major methodological approaches in forecasting MSW generation, the time-series approach uses past data and their distribution to determine future waste trends. The factor model on the other hand explains and predicts waste arisings with explanatory variables such as socio-economic factors of the waste generators. This latter approach not just aims at making predictions on waste quantities, it also aims at unveiling hypothetical causal relationships between factors for the prediction of waste arisings. Thus, it is more sophisticated and intellectually sound.

Keywords: Municipal solid waste; Waste projection; Classical linear regression; Autoregression; Factor models; Time series models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2009.11.012

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