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An assessment of waste management efficiency at BAA airports
- Source :
- Construction Management and Economics. 21:421-431
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2003.
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Abstract
- The issue of waste management within airports is becoming increasingly important with enormous increases in passenger numbers and is a key responsibility of the facilities manager. Airports are notoriously poor environmental performers and this growth in the industry is leading to increasing levels of waste production. The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of waste management operations at BAA airports, with reference to best practices within airports in continental Europe. The paper presents the findings of a survey of waste management methods in a sample of UK airports. The analysis of numerical data is based on those airports in the BAA group. Many of these are among the busiest airports in Britain, and Heathrow and Gatwick are two of the world's busiest. Data constraints prevented a more detailed analysis of other airports outside BAA. The paper highlights some difficulties in measuring BAA's waste management efficiency based on the waste hierarchy and concludes that some European airp...
- Subjects :
- Facility management
Waste management
business.industry
Waste production
ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS
Best practice
ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS
Sample (statistics)
Building and Construction
Waste hierarchy
business
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Management Information Systems
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1466433X and 01446193
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Construction Management and Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d0e7df5acf21e19d1c262f75efd2d90f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619032000089599