Municipal Waste Management Cost Prediction

"Municipal waste is defined as waste collected and treated by or for municipalities. It covers waste from households, including bulky waste, similar waste from commerce and trade, office buildings, institutions and small businesses, as well as yard and garden waste, street sweepings, the contents of litter containers, and market cleansing waste if managed as household waste. The definition excludes waste from municipal sewage networks and treatment, as well as waste from construction and demolition activities. This indicator is measured in thousand tonnes and in kilograms per capita."

Please find below the table for columns description -

• Variable Label
• region Region
• province Province
• name Name of municipality
• tc Cost per capita eur
• cres residual cost per capita
• csor Sorted cost per caputa
• istat National code
• area km2
• pop population
• alt altitude m.s.l.
• isle dummy municipality on isle
• sea dummy coastal municipality
• pden population density (people per km2)
• wden waste per km2
• urb urbanization index (1 low, 3 high)
• fee fee scheme
• d_fee dmmy PAYT
• sample Reg with PAYT
• organic organic %
• paper paper%
• glass glass %
• wood wood %
• metal metal %
• plastic plastic %
• raee raee %
• texile texile %
• other other %
• msw_so msw sorted kg
• msw_un msw unsorted kg
• msw Municipal solid waste kg
• sor Share of sorther waste
• geo 1 South, 2 Center, 3 North
• roads Km of roads within the municipality
• s_wteregio Share of sw sent to W2E plants - regional figure
• s_landfill share of waste to landifil
• gdp Municipal revenues EUR (p) - log
• proads People per km of roads (log)
• wage Taxable income EUR (p) - log
• finance Municipal revenues EUR (p) - log

Data Credits - Di Foggia, Giacomo (2022), “Municipal waste management cost and fee schemes ”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/w5f9kg7743.1

Source - Mendeley Data