Relationship between household characteristics and industrial waste emissions

Abstract

The present paper discusses the relationship between the types of various household characteristics and the industrial waste generations and landfills, using the non-competitive import type input-output model. For the empirical analysis, we used the 1995 waste generation data focusing on the 69 industrial wastes and 1995 landfill ratios from the waste survey data, 1995 household survey statistics, and the 1995 non-competitive import type input-output table. Using the basic data, we estimated the industrial waste generations and landfills directly and indirectly induced by the consumption propensities of the various household types such as householder income levels, householder age, and house types and evaluated the differences in the embodied waste generations and landfills for the household types.