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How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting Management
Composting is one of the environmentally friendly ways of reducing organic waste. It is economically viable since it cuts costs associated with the hauling of wastes and enables farmers to reduce the use of fertilizers. Composting operations are relatively non-existent in the solid municipal waste s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9575438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302221128454 |
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author | Farhidi, Faraz Madani, Kaveh Crichton, Rohan |
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description | Composting is one of the environmentally friendly ways of reducing organic waste. It is economically viable since it cuts costs associated with the hauling of wastes and enables farmers to reduce the use of fertilizers. Composting operations are relatively non-existent in the solid municipal waste sector, as the market has molded itself and grown into a standard “bury-or-burn” model. As humans are trying to address global warming, composting proves to be a promising climate change mitigation option, benefiting societies in terms of the environment, the economy, and overall health. This study projects that—with the current trends—by the end of 2030, the U.S. can increase the compost to waste ratio by 18% from 10%, reducing carbon emissions by 30 million tons a year while saving around 16 billion USD in municipal waste management costs. Analyzing the existing records in the OECD countries suggests that economic motives are not powerful enough to incentivize the industry/household toward composting. Stricter environmental policies can boost the composting volume by 214-574 thousand tons per year. Imposing waste taxes and penalties can give birth to a vast industry that has not yet flourished while the economic subsidies financed by the collected taxes and penalties can incentivize the private sector to further invest in composting. |
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spelling | pubmed-95754382022-10-18 How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting Management Farhidi, Faraz Madani, Kaveh Crichton, Rohan Environ Health Insights Perspective Composting is one of the environmentally friendly ways of reducing organic waste. It is economically viable since it cuts costs associated with the hauling of wastes and enables farmers to reduce the use of fertilizers. Composting operations are relatively non-existent in the solid municipal waste sector, as the market has molded itself and grown into a standard “bury-or-burn” model. As humans are trying to address global warming, composting proves to be a promising climate change mitigation option, benefiting societies in terms of the environment, the economy, and overall health. This study projects that—with the current trends—by the end of 2030, the U.S. can increase the compost to waste ratio by 18% from 10%, reducing carbon emissions by 30 million tons a year while saving around 16 billion USD in municipal waste management costs. Analyzing the existing records in the OECD countries suggests that economic motives are not powerful enough to incentivize the industry/household toward composting. Stricter environmental policies can boost the composting volume by 214-574 thousand tons per year. Imposing waste taxes and penalties can give birth to a vast industry that has not yet flourished while the economic subsidies financed by the collected taxes and penalties can incentivize the private sector to further invest in composting. SAGE Publications 2022-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9575438/ /pubmed/36262199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302221128454 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Farhidi, Faraz Madani, Kaveh Crichton, Rohan How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting Management |
title | How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting
Management |
title_full | How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting
Management |
title_fullStr | How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting
Management |
title_full_unstemmed | How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting
Management |
title_short | How the US Economy and Environment can Both Benefit From Composting
Management |
title_sort | how the us economy and environment can both benefit from composting
management |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9575438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302221128454 |
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