"Cost Effectiveness of Reducing Dioxin Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators in Japan" 

Kishimoto Atsuo, Oka Tosihiro, Yoshida Kikuo, Nakanishi Junko

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
²United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA

Environmental Science & Technology,  Vol.35 No.14 pp.2861-2866 (2001)

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Abstract

Cost effectiveness analyses are carried out regarding countermeasures that were recently taken and are being taken at municipal solid waste incinerators in Japan. Annual costs were estimated by telephone survey and model calculations. Annual decrease in the incidence of cancer was estimated in three steps. 

When the annual number of life-years gained divides costs, cost per life-year saved (CPLYS) was obtained. CPLYS was estimated to be 7.9 million yen for emergency countermeasures and 150 million yen for long-term countermeasures. However, it must be noted that these obtained CPLYSs are highly dependent on cancer slope factor.

Keywords

cost-effectiveness, dioxins, municipal solid waste incinerators, cost per life-year saved