Consideration of stakeholder interests in the planning of sustainable waste management programmes

• Published in: Waste management & research Vol. 34; no. 10; pp. 1036 - 1046
• Main Authors: López-Toro, Alberto A, Rubio-Romero, Juan Carlos, Suárez-Cebador, Manuel, Arjona-Jiménez, Rafael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2016; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Cities; Conservation of Natural Resources; Environment; Environmental Pollution; Humans; Models, Theoretical; Municipal waste management; Occupational Health; Pollution abatement; Recycling; Refuse Disposal - methods; Social responsibility; Socioeconomic Factors; Solid Waste - analysis; Solid waste management; Spain; Stakeholders; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Sustainability; Sustainability management; Waste management; Waste management industry; municipal solid waste; waste management effects; stakeholders; Sustainable waste management; impact assessment
• ISSN: 0734-242X; 1096-3669
• DOI: 10.1177/0734242X16657606

Those responsible for developing sustainable solid waste management programmes must consider the impacts of programme elements on everyone involved. This paper focuses on identifying the effects of waste management activities and assessing their overall impact on stakeholders. Collaborating with four focus groups and 36 experts, 19 effects were identified and nine questionnaires were designed to evaluate them, one for each stakeholder group. All told, 1805 people took part in the survey. The results show that the effects most important to the survey participants are: (a) recycling solid urban waste, (b) pollution and (c) corporate social responsibility.