title: European trends in greenhouse gases emissions from integrated solid waste management.
abstract: The European Union (EU) has 28 member states, each with very different characteristics (e.g. surface, population density, per capita gross domestic product, per capita municipal solid waste (MSW) production, MSW composition, MSW management options). In this paper several integrated waste management scenarios representative of the European situation have been generated and analysed in order to evaluate possible trends in the net emission of greenhouse gases and in the required landfill volume. The results demonstrate that an integrated system with a high level of separate collection, efficient energy recovery in waste-to-energy plants and very limited landfill disposal is the most effective according to the indices adopted. Moreover, it is evident that a fully integrated system can make MSW management a carbon sink with a potentiality of up to approximately 40 Mt CO2eq year(-1).
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, dell'Energia, dell'Ambiente e dei Materiali , Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria , via Graziella loc. Feo di Vito, 89132 Reggio Calabria , Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Calabrò
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gori
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lubello
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D005060:Europe; D005544:Forecasting; D005740:Gases / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017752:Greenhouse Effect / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018511:Systems Integration
chemical_list: D005740:Gases
keywords: energy recovery; greenhouse gases; incineration; landfill; recycling