Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Nonmetropolitan Prototype for Solid Waste Resource Recovery

Fred Hitzhusen and Mark Luttner

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1977, vol. 59, issue 4, 691-698

Abstract: This study focuses on the recovery of energy and materials from solid waste at a coal-burning steam-electric plant located in a nonmetropolitan county in Northeast Ohio. The results of the analysis suggest that the resource recovery prototype involving a new solid waste processing facility and modification of the existing steam-electric plant is an economically feasible investment. This conclusion is substantiated by sensitivity analysis of five key technical and economic parameters under four alternative benefit-cost and internal rate of return criteria.

Date: 1977
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