ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT – THE CASE STUDY OF WASTE INCINERATION

Abstract

This paper presents the interactions between municipal solid waste management processes (such as waste incineration) and influences of environment in aspects of the atmosphere, water and space. These environmental components provide people with benefi ts, which are referred to as “environmental services”. In the paper authors attempt to identify environmental services in a process of waste incineration and to describe an approach to services’ potential valuation.