An Empirical Study on Greenhouse Gas Emission Calculations Under Different Municipal Solid Waste Management Strategies
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Abstract
The Chinese government is committed to ensuring separation of municipal solid waste (MSW), promoting the integrated development of the MSW management system with the renewable resource recovery system, and achieving construction of ecological civilization. Guided by the methods in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under five waste disposal scenarios in Beijing under the life cycle framework were assessed in this research. The study included collection and transportation, as well as three end disposal methods (sanitary landfill, incineration, and composting), and the emission reduction benefits of electricity generation from incineration and recycling of renewable resources were taken into account. The results show that an emission reduction benefit of 70.82% could be achieved under Scenario 5 in which kitchen waste and recyclables are sorted and recycled and the residue is incinerated, and the selection of the optimal strategy was not affected by changes in the separation rate. In addition, landfill would emit more GHG than incineration and composting. The results of this study are helpful for the government to make a decision on MSW management considering the goal of GHG emission reduction.
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OpenAlex topics: Municipal Solid Waste Management · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques · Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
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School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 15 North 3rd Ring Rd. E., Chaoyang, Beijing 100029, China
Zhongshan Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Zhongshan 528400, China
School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China
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