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Community response to a municipal waste incinerator: NIMBY or neighbor?
Abstract The USA generates an average of 362 800 mt of municipal waste a day. Presently, most solid waste is sent to sanitary landfills, but landfill disposal has become a less preferred disposal option. Increasingly, local jurisdictions are turning to waste incineration as a disposal option; one of the most serious impediments to waste incineration is citizen opposition. This study examines pre-operational attitudes toward a municipal waste incinerator located in Charlotte, NC, USA. We found that respondents have a more positive reaction to incineration than landfilling, although despite this positive reaction to incineration the respondents were still wary of living near a waste incinerator. We also found that almost two-thirds of the respondents did not know that an incinerator was being built in the area. Furthermore, it was discovered that the respondents had a surprisingly low level of opposition to the location of the incinerator.
Community response to a municipal waste incinerator: NIMBY or neighbor?
Abstract The USA generates an average of 362 800 mt of municipal waste a day. Presently, most solid waste is sent to sanitary landfills, but landfill disposal has become a less preferred disposal option. Increasingly, local jurisdictions are turning to waste incineration as a disposal option; one of the most serious impediments to waste incineration is citizen opposition. This study examines pre-operational attitudes toward a municipal waste incinerator located in Charlotte, NC, USA. We found that respondents have a more positive reaction to incineration than landfilling, although despite this positive reaction to incineration the respondents were still wary of living near a waste incinerator. We also found that almost two-thirds of the respondents did not know that an incinerator was being built in the area. Furthermore, it was discovered that the respondents had a surprisingly low level of opposition to the location of the incinerator.
Community response to a municipal waste incinerator: NIMBY or neighbor?
Furuseth, Owen J. (author) / O'Callaghan, Janet (author)
Landscape and Urban Planning ; 21 ; 163-171
1991-04-11
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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