1. The relationship between municipal solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from Switzerland.
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Magazzino, Cosimo, Mele, Marco, and Schneider, Nicolas
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WASTE gases , *GREENHOUSE gases , *WASTE recycling , *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation , *ECONOMIC expansion , *MUNICIPAL solid waste incinerator residues , *SOLID waste - Abstract
• A bidirectional causal relationship between municipal solid waste generation and GDP emerges. • Waste recovery (recycling and composting) is a key driver in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. • The D2C algorithm shows that more waste coincides with higher consumption and more significant economic growth. Municipal solid waste generation is becoming a prominent issue in the environmental arena. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship among municipal waste generation, greenhouse gas emissions, and GDP in Switzerland over the period 1990–2017. We apply both time series procedures (stationarity and causality tests) and a Machine Learning approach. Empirical findings underline a bidirectional causal relationship between municipal solid waste generation and GDP, indicating that the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis holds for Switzerland. Moreover, we found that waste recovery (recycling and composting) is a key driver in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, in the Tree Model, the probability that a change in the waste recovery variable could lead to a reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions registered a value of 87%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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