Monitoring sustainable waste management in OECD countries: A Malmquist productivity approach.

Autor: Halkos GE; Laboratory of Operations Research, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, 28 Octobriou 78, 5, Volos 38333, Greece. Electronic address: halkos@uth.gr., Aslanidis PC; Laboratory of Operations Research, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, 28 Octobriou 78, 5, Volos 38333, Greece. Electronic address: paslanidis@uth.gr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Waste management (New York, N.Y.) [Waste Manag] 2024 Dec 15; Vol. 190, pp. 623-631. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2024.10.035
Abstrakt: Sustainable waste management (SWM) practices are crucial for tackling environmental concerns under a circular economy (CE) scope. Thirty-one OECD countries have been evaluated on their national SWM performance via Malmquist data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology from 2000 to 2021. The Malmquist (MPI) and Malmquist-Luenberger (MLPI) productivity indices are compared based on their total factor productivity (TFP) and its elements (i.e., efficiency and technological changes). Both models have the gross domestic product (GDP) as a desirable output, but MLPI also incorporates municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and greenhouse gases (GHGs, i.e. CO 2 and CH 4 ) as undesirable outputs. MLPI has a lower average performance (1.74%) than MPI (4.42%), meaning that the incorporation of waste and GHGs has diminished an OECD country's SWM performance by 2.5 times on average. In essence, it is innovation that drives TFP in the selected countries. Overall, the synergistic implementation of SWM practices, Malmquist DEA-based methodology, and CE principles is crucial for advancing sustainable development and achieving a circular and resilient future. The manuscript also offers policy implications regarding the need of financial incentives, vocational training, and fostering stakeholder encouragement in the waste sectors to implement CE solutions.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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