The “Life cycle assessment tools for the development of integrated waste management (LCA-IWM) strategies for cities and regions with rapid growing economies” are being currently developed and will consist of
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(i) a waste prognostic model, which will allow the prediction of future waste generation and
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(ii) a sustainability assessment tool. The latter will enable the economic, environmental and social assessment of various waste management scenarios.
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The draft versions of both tools will be developed and used in case studies in the course of the year 2004. By August 2005 both tools, including a handbook in several languages will be freely available from the project web-site:
