Environmental-Economic Modelling Municipal Soild Waste Management System of the Czech Republic

Abstract

Strategic decision-making for dealing with municipal solid waste is a problem currently exercising the minds of many Member States throughout the European Union. This paper is devoted to environmental–economic modelling of the strategic developments in Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems at the Czech Republic. It was created by the authors for the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic. The model was developed based on given input macroeconomic variables and it enables to simulate the development of variant waste landfill fees and the inclusion or exclusion of certain equipment in preparation for energy recovery (ER) or mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of waste in selected locations and the prescribed annual capacity. It uses data from annual reports of municipalities (if available) on the production of municipal solid waste and estimates its quantity (if unavailable) by using a sophisticated model, including demographic and socio-economic impacts. The economic part of the model is based on an analysis of factors determining the costs for landfills, ER and MBT facilities and calculates the price for waste management for each municipality in CR, including its foreseeable development by 2020. The paper gives a short description of the model and its outputs in relation to change economy of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems at the Czech Republic in accordance with the implementation of the European Waste Framework Directive into Czech legislation.