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In responding to common solid waste management situations or conditions,
decision-makers face the following choices:
- How to set priorities for scare municipal resources as between solid
waste management and other pressing needs, e.g., water supply, health
protection, or transport, and within the amount of funds dedicated to
solid waste issues.
- How best to extend solid waste management services to new developments
on the fringes of their city, and catch up with needs in existing communities,
many of which are currently served only by the informal sector.
- How to charge residents and businesses, many with very limited resources,
for solid waste management services when they have never paid anything,
or much before.
- How to select among different competing technologies for reducing,
collecting, disposing of and converting solid waste, and among specific
suppliers of solid waste management services in a manner that takes
into account the best long-term interests of their city.
- How to choose between environmental concerns and economic interests
when these appear to be in conflict, e.g., when a business threatens
to close or to move elsewhere and throw people out of work rather than
paying more for solid waste disposal.
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