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Solid Waste Management for Rural Areas – A Quadratic Programming Approach

Published:1975-10 Issue:2 Volume:4 Page:108-119
ISSN:0163-5484
Container-title:Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Northeast. Agric. Econ. Counc.

Author:

Perlack Robert D.,Willis Cleve E.

Abstract

The expanding volume of solid wastes generated in the United States, with its accompanying health hazards and pollution dangers, has led to concern among public agencies and private citizens alike. It has been estimated by, for example, that the combined effect of increasing population and increasing per capita consumption in the United States has been an increase from 70 million to 175 million tons of solid waste generated annually during the period 1940 to 1970. In Massachusetts, an estimated 7.5 million tons of non-agricultural wastes were generated in 1970, and this volume is projected by to double by the year 2000. Nationally, public expenditures for solid waste collection and disposal services for most communities are exceeded only by spending on the two categories of education and roads.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Reference29 articles.

1. In most cases, the present disposal methods practiced by smaller communities did not conform with the legal minimum requirements [5].

2. In a survey taken by Raytheon Service Company in February 1972, of the 351 communities in Massachusetts, more than ninety percent process solid waste in an illegal and unsatisfactory manner.

3. The major legislature on the federal level was the passage of the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965. In Massachusetts, the Bureau of Solid Waste Management was established with authority to set up regional districts, designate sites and to contract for equipment and facilities.