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Benefit‐Cost Analysis of a Nonmetropolitan Prototype for Solid Waste Resource Recovery
Author(s) -
Hitzhusen Fred,
Luttner Mark
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1239396
Subject(s) - municipal solid waste , investment (military) , resource recovery , resource (disambiguation) , waste management , coal , internal rate of return , environmental economics , technical analysis , return on investment , business , natural resource economics , environmental science , engineering , production (economics) , economics , computer science , finance , computer network , politics , wastewater , political science , law , macroeconomics
This study focuses on the recovery of energy and materials from solid waste at a coal‐burning steam‐electric plant located in a nonmetropolitan county in Northeast Ohio. The results of the analysis suggest that the resource recovery prototype involving a new solid waste processing facility and modification of the existing steam‐electric plant is an economically feasible investment. This conclusion is substantiated by sensitivity analysis of five key technical and economic parameters under four alternative benefit‐cost and internal rate of return criteria.