American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference paper 1979
“There are technical and economic complementaries inherent in resource recovery projects which suggest that they may succeed where single purpose projects for solid waste recycling, composting, etc have failed in the past. The controversy surrounding the economic potential of such projects in developing countries can only be assessed on a case-by-case basis within the framework of project evaluation. In applying such a framework, there are both theoretical and practical difficulties with a project definition based on sequentially separable components. The more general framework of multi-purpose project evaluation is thus recommended except for special cases where joint products are significant and technology choice is limited.”
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