Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is an important
and challenging issue for sustainable development. It is also
one of the most controversial topics and the subject of an
ongoing debate between different stakeholders. A particularly ‘difficult’ issue is MSW incineration which has in
many countries become a socially unacceptable option for
dealing with solid waste owing to health, transport, aesthetic
and other concerns (see e.g. Ares and Bolton 2002;
Azapagic2011). On the other hand, the increasing amounts