Abstract: Municipal waste incinerators are commonly believed to affect residential property sales. In cases where property sales prices are not affected, sales of affected properties may increase because impact‐sensitive households ...

Abstract: Households discard hazardous products to municipal landfills in rural areas. This paper derives a model to predict discarded quantities of household hazardous products in a rural community in Alberta. The results were used ...

Abstract: Large metropolitan areas experience resistance to waste disposal facilities because of physical and social impacts on typical rural host communities. The perception of the impacts is amplified by the perceived lack of ...

Abstract: Property‐value guarantees (PVGs) by the proponent of a waste facility may be an effective tool to compensate nearby property owners if the facility impacts property values adversely. A review of the theory, and of 13 ...

Abstract: Property‐value guarantees eliminate value losses to property owners near waste‐disposal facility sites. In theory, guaranteeing property values is a simple method of summarily addressing waste‐facility impacts and, hence, ...

Abstract: Waste-facility siting processes are complex because they involve four sets of causal elements and relationships: (1) Facility need, design, and operation cause facility effects by interacting with site, environmental, and ...

Abstract: Landfills are frequently considered for urban development, but have limited end uses due to large differential settlements, leachate generation, and gas emissions. Current landfill design with top- and bottom-liner systems ...