The Effective Management of Organic Waste Policy in Albania

Following a recycling or continuous recycling process, there is always waste with no material or market value that can be converted into energy or other fossil fuel substitutes. The present study aimed to evaluate the management of organic waste policy and to predict the trend of organic waste gener...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 16; p. 4217
Main Authors Oncioiu, Ionica, Căpuşneanu, Sorinel, Topor, Dan Ioan, Petrescu, Marius, Petrescu, Anca-Gabriela, Toader, Monica Ioana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2020
Subjects
Climate change
Consumption
Costs
Decision making
Decomposition
Economic conditions
Efficiency
Electricity
Energy
Energy recovery
environment technologies
Environmental impact
Heat
Literature reviews
Market value
Medical wastes
Metals
Moisture content
organic waste
organic waste projection
Organic wastes
Oxidation
Pollution
Public awareness
Recycling
Roads & highways
Synthesis gas
Temperature
Waste disposal
Waste management
Albania
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Summary:Following a recycling or continuous recycling process, there is always waste with no material or market value that can be converted into energy or other fossil fuel substitutes. The present study aimed to evaluate the management of organic waste policy and to predict the trend of organic waste generation in Albania. The research used an appropriate Box–Jenkins Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) to determine the quantification of organic waste to be generated. The main results obtained can support the decision-making process in the planning, change and short-term implementation of organic waste management, and the information provided is very useful in collecting, transporting, storing and managing waste in Albanian cities (Tirana, Durrës, Kukës, Berat, Shkodra, Dibër, Gjirokastër and Elbasan). Furthermore, the high percentage of the organic waste generation until 2025 constitutes good premises to raising public awareness related to their energy recovery.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13164217