A methodology for assessment of MSWM applied to Southern Europe areas
Résumé
Abstract. The MED programme is one of the ETCP (European Transnational Cooperation Programmes) in the frame of the 'Territorial Cooperation' objective of the EU cohesion policy. The MED project entitled WASMAN was co-financed by ETCP and was launched in 2009 among a set of eight areas from Southern Europe. Detailed investigations were undertaken during three years at each of these areas by local MSWM experts resulting at a thorough state-of-the-art (Med Wasman Team, 2010) which is the starting point of our work. In order to fit the objective of the cohesion policy aimed by ETCP, this paper focuses on a methodology for assessing the overall performances of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) applied to the eight chosen areas. The performance of MSWM has been assessed through eleven criteria representing various social, economic and environmental factors. For each criterion and each area, (Med Wasman Team, 2010) gives the strengths and the weaknesses and a precise information about the quantity and typology of waste, its collection, segregation and processing. Based on those raw data, we propose a method to measure the overall performance which should give a reference model of good practices in the concerned areas. This method takes into account the importance given to criteria by local experts. We observed that these importances vary significantly from one area to another. This fact motivates our methodology to search for a consensual ranking of practices that is less sensitive to the importance's variability. The final ranking shows that only three areas demonstrate good performances. The remaining areas could improve their performances by following the (combinations of) working models of better ranked areas. Based on that reference model, a short list of actions is compiled for each area.
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