The municipality of Torrelles de Llobregat decided to implement a pay-as-you-throw municipal waste scheme to offer a more equitable charge for citizens who generate less waste. Before the…
Torrelles de Llobregat applied the first pay-as-you-throw experience in Spain, where every household and commercial activity paid the waste charge according to the amount and type of waste…
In 2003 the town of Torrelles de Llobregat (Barcelona) introduced a door to door waste collection scheme, through which the different waste fractions were collected on different days at the…
This paper analizes the writing up and aproval process of the European Union Directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). This analysis shows that European Union…
The main purpose of this paper is to point out how modelling can be useful both as a tool to design environmental policy and as a tool for enterprise management. The paper analyses how an…
