Eco-efficiency of solid waste management in Welsh SMEs

Joseph Sarkis; Jeroen Dijkshoorn

doi:10.1117/12.631778

7 November 2005 Eco-efficiency of solid waste management in Welsh SMEs

Joseph Sarkis, Jeroen Dijkshoorn

Proceedings Volume 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V; 59970L (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631778
Event: Optics East 2005, 2005, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper provides an efficiency analysis of practices in Solid Waste Management of manufacturing companies in Wales. We apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) to a data set compiled during the National Waste Survey Wales 2003. We explore the relative performance of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SME; 10-250 employees) in Wales. We determine the technical and scale environmental and economic efficiencies of these organizations. Our evaluation focuses on empirical data collected from companies in a wide diversity of manufacturing industries throughout Wales. We find significant differences in industry and size efficiencies. We also find correlations that exist among environmental and economic efficiencies. These variations show that improvements can be made using benchmarks from similar and different size industries. Further pursuit of an investigation of possible reasons for these differences is recommended.

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Joseph Sarkis and Jeroen Dijkshoorn "Eco-efficiency of solid waste management in Welsh SMEs", Proc. SPIE 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V, 59970L (7 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631778

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