Environmental optimization in fractionating industrial wastes using cost-benefit analysis
(2004) In Resources, Conservation & Recycling 41(2). p.147-164- Abstract
- This paper proposes that industrial waste be regarded, in a business economic sense, as having the same basic status as regular products. A basic mathematical expression for assigning industrial costs to waste is presented. The expression can be employed in conjunction with cost-benefit analysis for estimating the "true" internal costs of industrial waste. In two case studies presented, industrial waste was found to have a substantial negative impact on profits. This is seen as a possibly unavoidable consequence of industrial companies' acting in accordance with the ideal of improving the sustainability and productivity of resource use. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- author
- Stenis, Jan LU
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- publishing date
- 2004
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- optimization, integrated industrial waste management, waste fractionating, cost-benefit analysis
- in
- Resources, Conservation & Recycling
- volume
- 41
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 147 - 164
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000220819400005
- scopus:1842611943
- ISSN
- 0921-3449
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.resconrec.2003.09.005
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 8b1e5f4a-d17f-4ac7-adf8-ac603ef2f1de (old id 281099)
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