Overview of government tools designed to increase a volume of organic municipal solid waste processed into organic fertilisers

Abstract

Governments across the world are struggling to deal with the continuously growing amounts of generated organic Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), and one of the ways to deal with this issue is to stimulate volumes of organic MSW diverted from landfills to processing. The article presents a systematic overview of economic and administrative tools that governments use in order to stimulate processing of organic MSW to organic fertilisers. Increased volumes of processed organic MSW and use of organic fertilisers would bring multiple economic and environmental effect to the world economy. Tools discussed in the paper are divided into two groups: economic (financing, stimulating of demand and taxation) and administrative (provision of information and implementation of amendments to legislation). The author demonstrates all the tools by examples in the world economy, which were selected based on geographic diversity principle to demonstrate global nature of the problem.