Cost-effectiveness of GHG emission reduction measures and energy recovery from municipal waste in Croatia

Daniel Rolph Schneider, Mislav Kirac and Andrea Hublin

Energy, 2012, vol. 48, issue 1, 203-211

Abstract: Many of the modern practices in waste management at the same time represent means of reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The main focus in this paper is given to the measures for recovering energy from municipal solid waste (MSW): Utilization of landfill gas for electricity production, Utilization of refuse derived fuel (RDF) in cement industry, Thermal treatment (Incineration) of MSW, Mechanical-biological treatment, and to one measure without energy recovery – Landfill gas flaring, for all of which it was found that could generate substantial GHG emission savings.

Keywords: Cost-effectiveness; Marginal costs; GHG emissions; Waste-to-energy; Waste management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544212001028
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:48:y:2012:i:1:p:203-211

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.02.008

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().