Historical factors are shown to have fragmented MSWM into a locally implemented set of unit operations. Regulations are shown to have contributed to private regional facilities. The impact of the Carbone decision on local flow control is discussed. Proposed Federal legislation to empower State restrictions on the interstate transportation of MSW is analyzed. New opportunities are revealed for shipping companies under the policy of reverse logistics.
Recycling is shown to update and expand the dataset created for the analysis.
A flexible inventory system for municipal recyclables is also proposed. The work was supported by a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, NSF grant ESI 9353846, IBM, and Carnegie Mellon academic funds. Sources and implications of uncertainty. This thesis is an exploratory study on the sources and implications of measurement uncertainty in the estimation of toxic industrial emissions. The TRI is a collection of environ-mental discharges and other kinds of transfers reported by some 25,000 industrial facilities in the US of more than 300 toxic chemical substances listed in the enabling legislation.