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Accepted Manuscript Tourism's impacts on the costs of municipal solid waste collection: Evidence from Italy Giulio Greco, Velia Gabriella Cenciarelli, Marco Allegrini PII: S0959-6526(17)33163-3 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.179 Reference: JCLP 11574 To appear in: Journal of Cleaner Production Received Date: 5 June 2017 Revised Date: 19 December 2017 Accepted Date: 20 December 2017 Please cite this article as: Greco G, Cenciarelli VG, Allegrini M, Tourism's impacts on the costs of municipal solid waste collection: Evidence from Italy, Journal of Cleaner Production (2018), doi: 10.1016/ j.jclepro.2017.12.179. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
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Accepted Manuscript
Tourism's impacts on the costs of municipal solid waste collection: Evidence fromItaly
Giulio Greco, Velia Gabriella Cenciarelli, Marco Allegrini
PII: S0959-6526(17)33163-3
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.179
Reference: JCLP 11574
To appear in: Journal of Cleaner Production
Received Date: 5 June 2017
Revised Date: 19 December 2017
Accepted Date: 20 December 2017
Please cite this article as: Greco G, Cenciarelli VG, Allegrini M, Tourism's impacts on the costs ofmunicipal solid waste collection: Evidence from Italy, Journal of Cleaner Production (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.179.
This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service toour customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergocopyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Pleasenote that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and alllegal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
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Tourism’s impacts on the costs of municipal solid waste collection: evidence from Italy
Abstract
Tourism is crucial to economic growth and has major environmental and social impacts. A key
impact is the generation of municipal solid waste. Yet, whether and to what extent tourism
increases the costs of solid waste collection has seen little attention. To our best knowledge, this
is the first study to examine the impacts of tourism activities on the solid waste collection costs
of different waste types. Analysing a sample of 68 Italian municipalities, we estimate the
tourism’s impacts on solid waste collection costs per waste type: organic, paper, multi-material
(metal, plastic, glass), and residual undifferentiated. We find that the number of tourists, the
number of overnight hotel stays, and tourists’ spending significantly increase the collection
costs of paper and paperboard, multi-material, and residual undifferentiated. Our findings
suggest the need to distinguish between waste types in future investigations about the tourism as
a cost driver. The results have interesting practical implications for the waste management
systems and for municipalities’ overall waste management policies.
Keywords: waste management, waste collection, cost drivers
