Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy

Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy

This paper measures the productive efficiency of municipal solid waste (MSW) logistics by applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to cross-sectional data of prefectures in Japan. Either through public operations or by outsourcing to private waste collection operators, prefectural governments posses...

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Main Authors: Daisuke Ichinose, Masashi Yamamoto, Yuichiro Yoshida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-03-01
Series:IATSS Research
Subjects:
Solid-waste collection
Reverse logistics
Productive efficiency
Data envelopment analysis
Spatial correlation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0386111213000046

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