Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 164, Issue -, Pages 1486-1496Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.064
Keywords
Eco-efficiency; Directional distance function; Environmental performance indicators
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This paper uses directional distance function DDF in order to analyze a group of environmental performance indicators (EPIs) in doing so, selecting desired and undesired inputs and outputs and taking as variables the analyze of glass, paper, cardboard, light packaging and other waste. In a second phase an analysis is generated with five socioeconomic factors (Built for this paper); population density, tourism, the economic activity of the municipality, the economic level per inhabitant and education.. As a result, we are able to observe the influence and effects of ecoefficiency on urban waste management (EUWM) in 143 Spanish municipalities. The result panel data is generated via a Tobit Model regression analysis showing that tourism and education are the significant independent variables in model. The study shows that a local administration does not need to have a high economic level or be highly populated to reach a good level of eco-efficiency. It is not the money that causes a level of eco-efficiency. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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