Preliminary Comparison Among Recycling Rates for Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of India, Israel, Italy and USA

Francesco Di Maria; Ronald L. Mersky; Shira Daskal; Ofira Ayalon; Sadhan K. Ghosh

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7071-7_1

Preliminary Comparison Among Recycling Rates for Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of India, Israel, Italy and USA

Francesco Di Maria, Ronald L. Mersky, Shira Daskal, Ofira Ayalon, Sadhan K. Ghosh

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Abstract

This paper examines the recycling rates for waste management systems implemented in different countries: India, Israel, Italy and USA. Recycling rates range from a minimum of about 20% for Israel up to about 44% for Italy. Indian recycling rates are affected by a large informal sector providing waste reuse and recycling at source (about 15%) and at waste collection sites (15%), even as >30% of produced waste is not collected. A high level of uncontrolled dumping up to 70% was found for India. Substantial differences were found in the legal and legislative frameworks for waste management. Absence of clear definitions and classifications of waste was detected for India and Israel leading to inconsistent data concerning the amount and composition of waste generated. With the exception of Italy, in all the other countries a lack of a fully implemented political, legal and economic scheme for supporting efficient management in the waste sector was detected.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainable Waste Management
Subtitle of host publication	Policies and Case Studies: 7th IconSWM—ISWMAW 2017: Volume 1
Publisher	Springer Singapore
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811370717
ISBN (Print)	9789811370700
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7071-7_1
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Keywords

Developed countries
Developing countries
Recycling rates
Waste management

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Di Maria, F., Mersky, R. L., Daskal, S., Ayalon, O., & Ghosh, S. K. (2019). Preliminary Comparison Among Recycling Rates for Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of India, Israel, Italy and USA. In Sustainable Waste Management: Policies and Case Studies: 7th IconSWM—ISWMAW 2017: Volume 1 (pp. 1-13). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7071-7_1

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