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One of the key issues facing the environmental manager is the sustainable management of solid waste. Recovery of this waste for recycling often presents the best practical environmental option and companies, industry and Government have set a number of targets for its recycling. A particular challenge is encountered when waste recovery depends on voluntary action. Currently, there is no means of predicting the performance of these voluntary schemes in advance. This paper presents a new mathematical model of waste recovery that can potentially enable these predictions to be made. The model utilizes a process simulation approach to describe the material balance from consumption to discard. Flow partitions within the balance are governed by human decisions. In the model these decisions are represented by probability-distribution functions comprising an explained component and an unexplained random component. The explained component is linked to the demographics of the sample population. The key antecedent factors that affect the human decisions have been delineated from a literature survey of the psychological factors affecting recycling. Their representation in the model is consisten

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Author

Peter Tucker; Grant Murney; Jacqueline Lamont

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0301-4797)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)