regularly accepted as a useful source of support for overall deci-
sion-making in many countries (Carlsson Reich, 2005). While
waste LCA provides a systematic framework for accounting for
environmental impacts associated with waste management, most
decisions related to the real-life implementation of waste technol-
ogies in modern societies are affected by economic constraints. For
decision-makers, the lack of a balanced economic assessment
alongside traditional LCA results therefore limits the value of the
LCA itself, as economic priorities are then de-coupled from envi-
ronmental aspects.
The economic characteristics of waste management have been
addressed in the literature, related either to specific waste man-
agement technologies