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Solid Waste Management for Rural Areas – A Quadratic Programming Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Robert D. Perlack  and
Cleve E. Willis
Robert D. Perlack
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cleve E. Willis
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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The expanding volume of solid wastes generated in the United States, with its accompanying health hazards and pollution dangers, has led to concern among public agencies and private citizens alike. It has been estimated by, for example, that the combined effect of increasing population and increasing per capita consumption in the United States has been an increase from 70 million to 175 million tons of solid waste generated annually during the period 1940 to 1970. In Massachusetts, an estimated 7.5 million tons of non-agricultural wastes were generated in 1970, and this volume is projected by to double by the year 2000. Nationally, public expenditures for solid waste collection and disposal services for most communities are exceeded only by spending on the two categories of education and roads.

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Community Development
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 108 - 119
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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The authors wish to express appreciation to Professors Robert Christensen and Jon Conrad for their contributions to the research underlying this paper, to Curran Associates, Inc. for their cooperation and willingness to share information. Paper No. 1047, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This research supported (in part) from Experiment Station Project No. 335.

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