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Journal articles on the topic "Wasteful consumption"

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Lin, Ying-Ching, and Chiu-chi Angela Chang. "Exploring wasteful consumption." Journal of Environmental Psychology 49 (April 2017): 106–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.01.001.

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Eggert, Wolfgang. "Capital tax competition with socially wasteful government consumption." European Journal of Political Economy 17, no. 3 (September 2001): 517–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0176-2680(01)00043-x.

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Thøgersen, John. "Wasteful food consumption: Trends in food and packaging waste." Scandinavian Journal of Management 12, no. 3 (September 1996): 291–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0956-5221(96)00011-5.

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Handa, Takaya, Yuhei Yoshimoto, Kazuya Nakayama, and Akio Kitagawa. "Novel Power Reduction Technique for ReRAM with Automatic Avoidance Circuit for Wasteful Overwrite." Active and Passive Electronic Components 2012 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/181395.

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Low-power operations can be great advantageous for ReRAM devices. However, wasteful overwriting such as the SET operation to low-resistance state (LRS) device and the RESET operation to high-resistance state (HRS) device causes not only an increase in power but also the degradation of the write cycles due to repeatedly rewriting. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a novel automatic avoidance circuit for dealing with wasteful overwriting that uses a sense amplifier and estimated the energy consumption reduction rate by conducting a circuit simulation. As a result, this circuit helped to reliably avoid the wasteful overwriting operation to reduce about 99% and 97% of wasteful energy using VSRC and CSRC, respectively.
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السرابي, ياسمين, and علي الخضر. "الهدر في استهلاك الخبز في الأردن = Wasteful Consumption of Bread in Jordan." Dirasat Human and Social Sciences 43 (October 2016): 2187–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.12816/0035115.

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عبيدات, محمد إبراهيم, and ياسمين عبد اللطيف السرابي. "الهدر في استهلاك الخبز في الأردن = Wasteful Consumption of Bread in Jordan." Dirasat Administrative Sciences 43, no. 1 (2016): 235–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.12816/0028459.

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Gupta Khusbu Kumari. "Waste Management Strategies in Textile & Garment Sector." International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology 06, no. 9S (October 12, 2020): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.46501/ijmtst0609s09.

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Textiles and Apparel (T&A) sector is one of the most significant industrial sectors and plays a major role towards contribution to national economy, employment generation and exports in developing countriesand most essential consumer goods industry. However, textile industry is accused of being one of the most polluting industries. Not only production but consumption of textiles also produces waste. To counter the problem, textile industry has taken many measures for reducing its negative contribution towards environment. One of such measures is textile recycling- the reuse as well as reproduction of fibers from textile waste. Recycling can be done through thermal, material, chemical and mechanical processes. Textile recycling is beneficial for environmental and economic conditions, reducing demand for textile chemicals, requirement of landfill space is reduced, consumption of less energy and reducing of water wastage. Market research, and efforts are needed to increase consumer awareness and to encourage manufacturers to increase the use of recycled textile waste into new products. Fashion consumption and sustainability are often opposing ideas. Fashion consumption is a highly resource-intensive, wasteful practice; and sustainability frowns on wasteful consumption. Sustainability in the fashion business is still an emerging agenda, not yet established, and many authors have recognised the importance of investigating how sustainability could be achieved
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Bayu Ananda Putra, Kusnendi, and Aas Nusrasyiah. "THE EFFECT OF RELIGIUSITY MODERATION ON THE EFFECT OF INCOME ON MUSLIM HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE." Ekspansi: Jurnal Ekonomi, Keuangan, Perbankan dan Akuntansi 12, no. 1 (August 31, 2020): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35313/ekspansi.v12i1.1929.

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Abstract : Islam regulates one's consumption to stay in the right corridor, such as not wasteful and also pay attention to social values. A good Muslim must be able to distinguish between needs and desires. But today, in reality, there are still many people who live consumptive and hedonism. This study aims to determine the effect of income on Muslim household consumption expenditure and the extent to which religiosity can moderate that influence. The population in this study were housewives in majelis taklim in Sukasari District. The sampling technique is purposive sampling-judgment sampling with a sample size of 97 respondents. The method used in this research is explanatory method with a quantitative approach. Data collection techniques using primary data through interviews and questionnaires to housewives in the Sukasari District taklim assembly. The data analysis technique used is the Moderated Regression Analysis method. The results showed that income significantly affected the consumption expenditure of Muslim households, and the level of religiosity significantly moderated the effect of income on Muslim household consumption expenditure. Keywords: Muslim Household Consumption Expenditure, Income, Religiosity
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Nurjannah, Nurjannah, Irwan Misbach, and Rahmawati Muin. "The Maslahah of Muslim Consumer Behavior in Using E-Wallet in Makassar City." FITRAH: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/fitrah.v7i1.3331.

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Technological developments affect the changes in a person's consumption level. The existence of a non-cash payment method using an e-Wallet that provides various conveniences is undeniably a disadvantage for its users, especially Muslim consumers; one of them is a wasteful attitude. Wasteful or consumptive behavior is an act prohibited in Islam. This study aimed to reveal and explain the maslahah of Muslim consumer behavior in using e-Wallet. This study was qualitative with a phenomenological approach. The primary data sources came from interviews conducted with e-Wallet users of OVO, GoPay, DANA, ShopeePay, and LinkAja types in Makassar City aged 21-35 and had worked. Additionally, the secondary data sources came from various references, such as books, journals, and other research. The data analysis was carried out by collecting data, reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. The study results indicated that the maslahah of Muslim consumer behavior in Makassar City using e-Wallet was practical in transacting; safe and clean in transactions, save on shopping and be more diligent in a donation. The use of e-Wallet can be categorized at the level of maslahah hajiyyah, whose existence can help the difficulties faced by Muslim consumers.
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Williams, Stephanie Paige, Gladman Thondhlana, and Harn Wei Kua. "Electricity Use Behaviour in a High-Income Neighbourhood in Johannesburg, South Africa." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (June 3, 2020): 4571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114571.

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Worldwide, households’ consumption of electricity contributes to a substantial proportion of total national energy demand. Thus, the residential sector is a major entity in efforts to define and achieve global sustainability goals. Understanding electricity use behaviour and factors underlying behaviour is critical for designing behaviour change interventions, particularly in contexts characterised by fast-growing economies, burgeoning number of high-income households, and consumption growth. However, relative to developed economies, very little is known on this subject in South Africa. Using structured questionnaires, this study examines electricity use behaviour among high-income households in Johannesburg, South Africa. Findings indicate evidence of electricity-saving behaviour, but the proportion of households doing so was less than 50% for many actions, indicative of widespread wasteful habits. Other particular wasteful electricity use habits include leaving electronic gadgets and appliances on ‘standby’ mode, not turning off electric water heaters and not defrosting fridges without automatic settings. The findings lend support to the positive and negative influence of self-transcendence and egoistic values respectively on environmental behaviour, but other value orientations did not yield significant relationships. The implications of the findings on practical interventions for and theoretical constructs underlying strategies for environmentally-sustainable behaviour are discussed.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Wasteful consumption"

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Pears, Katherine Elizabeth, and katherine pears@student rmit edu au. "Fashion Re-consumption; developing a sustainable fashion consumption practice influenced by sustainability and consumption theory." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080109.084214.

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This thesis explores the problem of wasteful fashion consumption in light of the current need for individuals to develop a sustainable way of living. The Agenda 21 report from the Rio Earth Summit (1992) determined that sustainable consumption is an issue to be addressed in terms of resource conservation, waste reduction and a reduction of production pollutants. To date, in Australia, there are no policies or strategies in place to reduce wasteful consumption from the consumer's perspective and it is this research and policy deficit that this thesis research addresses. According to a recent national study of wasteful consumption, Australians spent approximately 1.7 billion dollars in 2004 on fashion garments and accessories that they did not wear (Hamilton et al. 2005). However, landfill statistics revealed that only a small proportion of textile waste (of which clothing is a subsidiary category) contributes to landfill (ABS, 1998). This discrepancy between the annual expenditure and the contribution of clothing to landfill informed the research hypothesis; that the greater majority of these inactive fashion garments are hoarded in wardrobes rather than disposed of. This hypothesis was tested through an action research case study in the form of a clothing exchange event and related data collection and analysis (part 2 of the thesis). The additional objectives of the clothing exchange event were to activate
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Collins, R. C. "Excessive ... but not wasteful? : exploring young people's material consumption through the lens of divestment." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1417881/.

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Recent decades have been marked by growing awareness of the need for more sustainable consumption across society. Young people have been identified as well-placed to drive new (sustainable) modes of consumption through their participation in trend-setting youth cultures, as well as their roles as influential members of households. Yet, whilst the socio-cultural situation of young people makes them an appealing focus for sustainability promoters, the ways in which socio-cultural factors both enable and constrain their capacity to consume sustainably has been the subject of little investigation. The aim of this thesis has been to extend understanding of young people’s consumption in order to increase the efficacy of sustainability initiatives targeting youth. As a corrective to the preoccupation with acquisition that has dominated extant youth consumption studies, this project has taken divestment as its focus. Not only has this permitted a response to accusations of wastefulness amongst the young, it has focused much-needed attention on the socio-cultural forces underpinning young people’s relationships with their possessions. Based on qualitative research with young people in East Anglia, this thesis argues that the problem of waste (and thus unsustainability) in young people’s consumption does not (primarily) concern the flow of items into the waste stream. Rather, waste is produced when possessions fall out of use and remain unused over time, and this is driven by lack of agency in response to powerful socio-cultural forces. It is suggested that addressing this requires facilitating young people’s attempts to contest waste-making imperatives within extant cultural norms, and that sustainability promoters might attend to this through building young people’s competence, self-efficacy and desire to prolong the lives of their possessions. In sum, this thesis argues that young people can drive sustainable consumption if they are able to reclaim power over their consumption from the market and consumer culture.
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Books on the topic "Wasteful consumption"

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(Foreword), Stephen Edgell, and Ross E. Mitchell (Editor), eds. Thorstein Veblen's Contribution to Environmental Sociology: Essays in the Political Ecology of Wasteful Industrialism. Edwin Mellen Pr, 2007.

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Wakeman, Rosemary. Veblen Redivivus: Leisure and Excessin Europe. Edited by Dan Stone. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.013.0021.

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Mass consumption and leisure are among the most fascinating and thought-provoking challenges for twentieth-century historians. It was precisely the initial phases of mass consumerism that prompted Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen to warn of the consequences of ‘conspicuous consumption’ and misguided materialism in his 1899 The Theory of the Leisure Class. In Veblen's estimation, new-money leisure classes could dress up their pretensions and social status with a wasteful display of commodities. It was television more than any other factor that introduced people to the new world of things. Sports claimed a prominent place on television and in leisure life throughout Europe in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Tourism emerged from the ashes of World War II as one of the best prospects for European economic recovery and for providing relief for restive, war-weary Europeans only too happy for a few days of holiday respite. The second half of the twentieth century gives scholars every reason for pause in assessing the intertwining of citizen and consumer.
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Book chapters on the topic "Wasteful consumption"

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Wuyts, Wendy. "Market Distortions Encouraging Wasteful Consumption." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 443–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95726-5_45.

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Wuyts, Wendy. "Market Distortions Encouraging Wasteful Consumption." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 1–11. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_45-1.

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Batchelor, Daud Abdul-Fattah. "Reducing Wasteful Consumption Towards Sustainability by Waste Avoidance Using Self-Improvement (Tazkiyah) and Contentment (Qana‘ah) Approaches." In Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology, 193–212. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-778-9_13.

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Dauvergne, Peter. "The Business of More." In Environmentalism of the Rich. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034951.003.0004.

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This chapter pans out from the islands of the Pacific to analyze the forces of unsustainable production and consumption underlying the global sustainability crisis. It demonstrates how, everywhere, inequality is increasing, as is conspicuous, wasteful consumption as companies pursue more sales and more profits. The chapter highlights how advertisers manufacture desires and needs, how big-box retailers and brand manufacturers claiming to be responsible and sustainable are selling inexpensive, nondurable products, and how governments finance infrastructure (e.g., subsidizing roads and bridges) to stimulate even higher levels of consumption. States pursue more consumption in the name of economic growth; multinational corporations for more profits for owners and shareholders; and the world’s billionaires to amass even more wealth. One result, as this chapter documents, is extreme and rising inequality, with 1 percent of the world’s population now controlling approximately half of the world’s wealth. Other results include rising ecological footprints, overexploitation of natural resources, and an escalating global environmental crisis – the themes of the book’s next chapter.
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Sagoff, Mark. "Do We Consume Too Much?" In Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035668.003.0011.

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Marc Sagoff examines the relation between sustainability and the production and consumption of consumer products. He takes the optimistic view that economic production will never be seriously constrained by a lack of natural resources. None of the concerns that have occupied the environmental movement since the 1970s – global population, depletion of non-renewable resources, or food shortages – have materialized. He suggests that environmentalists embrace technological solutions instead of denying the power of technological progress or simply decrying consumerism as wasteful. Nevertheless, there are indeed good reasons to question consumerism. Although technology can overcome the physical limits nature sets on the amount we can produce and consume, there are moral, spiritual, and cultural limits to growth. Simply put, we consume too much – not because of the resources we use but because our market-driven consumerist culture undermines “the bonds of community, compassion, culture, and place.” We consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and “makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world.” Sagoff wishes to focus the debate on consumerism on the social lives we seek to preserve rather than the resources we may exhaust. That way we might stop vilifying technology and Romanticizing nature.
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Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. "Battling the Time Thieves." In Waste, 209–20. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501725845.003.0008.

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Translated into Japanese in 1976, Momo: The Mysterious Story of the Time Thieves and the Girl who Brought the Stolen Time Back to the People brought to life an idealized world that resounded deeply with the dissatisfactions and yearnings of its many readers. Michael Ende’s bestselling children’s book, popular among readers of all ages, enshrined the yutori so desired—the relaxation and leisure pursued in the second half of the 1980s, and the truly free time sought in the 1990s and 2000s. Through Momo, readers grappled with questions about what constituted wasteful time, how to think about value outside the framework of productivity and efficiency, and how assumptions about capitalism, progress, modernity, materialism, and consumption operated. To examine Momo and its popularity is thus to appreciate how the longing for an affluence of the heart has transcended economic booms and busts to endure from the 1980s into the twenty-first century.
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Conference papers on the topic "Wasteful consumption"

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Shi, Wen, Yuanbiao Zhang, Yumei Zhang, and Xiaochun Cai. "Notice of Retraction: Plugging-in disaster and recommendations modeling of energy consumption caused by wasteful recharging modes." In 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccet.2010.5485640.

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Ghosh, Arka, M. Reza Hosseini, Riyadh Al-Ameri, Gintaris Kaklauskas, and Bahareh Nikmehr. "Internet of Things (IoT) for digital concrete quality control (DCQC): A conceptual framework." In The 13th international scientific conference “Modern Building Materials, Structures and Techniques”. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/mbmst.2019.100.

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Concreting is generally a manual, labour intensive and time-consuming process, putting additional burden on constrained resources. Current practices of concreting are wasteful, non-sustainable and end products usually lack proper quality conformance. This paper, as the first outcome of an ongoing research project, proposes concrete as an area ripe for being disrupted by new technological developments and the wave of automation. It puts forward arguments to show that The Internet of Things (IoT), as an emerging concept, has the potential to revolutionize concreting operations, resulting in substantial time savings, confidence in its durability and enhanced quality conformance. A conceptual framework for a digital concrete quality control (DCQC) drawing upon IoT is outlined; DCQC facilitates automated lifecycle monitoring of concrete, controlled by real-time monitoring of parameters like surface humidity, temperature variance, moisture content, vibration level, and crack occurrence and propagation of concrete members through embedded sensors. Drawing upon an analytical approach, discussions provide evidence for the advantages of adopting DCQC. The proposed system is of particular appeal for practitioners, as a workable solution for reducing water, energy consumption and required man-hours for concreting procedures, as well as, providing an interface for access to real-time data, site progress monitoring, benchmarking, and predictive analytics purposes.
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Wang, Chenli, and Hohyun Lee. "Economical and Non-Invasive Residential Human Presence Sensing via Temperature Measurement." In ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2018-88211.

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Heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) is the largest source of residential energy consumption in United States, encompassing about 25% of total residential energy usage. A significant portion of energy is wasted by unnecessary operation, such as overheating/overcooling or operation without occupants. Wasteful behaviors will consume twice the amount of energy compared to energy conscious behaviors. Many market programmable thermostats exist to address this problem, however, difficulties in persistent programming of such products and lack of understanding of underlying physics prevent users from achieving tangible impact. Hence, fully autonomous energy control system is desirable to engage as many people into energy conscious behaviors as possible. Occupancy measurement is necessary components to enable fully autonomous control. Occupancy information can save energy by automatically turn off the HVAC system when the building is not occupied, or floats to a more energy-efficient setback temperature when the activity level is low. A number of existing sensor solutions available on the market include Passive Infrared (PIR), ultrasonic, Bluetooth/GPS, and CO2 sensors, but these are either too expensive, not user-friendly, or limited in detection scope. These sensors are also incapable of detecting whether or not the occupant is an animal or a human. The work in this paper proposes an economical, reliable, non-invasive package to both detect human presence in a residence of a wide variety of geometries at the time and predict future occupancy pattern, by utilizing temperature sensors. To accomplish this, thermal sensors will be attached to both ends of door handles to collect the temperature data. This data will allow us to create a schedule to identify human activity leaving and exiting the space. At the same time, we will be collecting the skin temperature to determine the human activity level for better identification of the thermal comfort zone for occupants. The prediction model for occupancy pattern will be developed from previous data by using machine learning algorithm. For verification, experimental setup was built to verify our model by comparing actual human presence data from a house with the measured and predicted occupancy pattern from the temperature sensors. Future steps include implementing a data fusion scheme into the model to combine information from multiple types of sensors.
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Cuellar, Amanda D., and Michael E. Webber. "Policy Incentives, Barriers and Recommendations for Biogas Production." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90272.

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Biogas is a mixture of predominantly carbon dioxide and methane that is formed from the anaerobic decomposition of organic materials. It is also a high-quality fuel that can be used in most natural gas applications such as home heating or electricity generation or scrubbed and sold into the gas grid. In the United States the production of biogas from animal manure alone represents an enormous potential energy resource, on the order of 0.9 quadrillion BTU (quad) annually, or nearly 1% of total US energy consumption. Biogas from the wastewater treatment sector in the US could provide another 1.5 billion kWh (or 5 trillion BTU). Despite the promise of this resource as a renewable, low-carbon source of energy, as of 2007 only 125 functioning biogas operations using manure exist in the US. These facilities produced 290 GWh (0.001 quad) of energy in 2007, which accounts for 0.001% of annual energy consumption in the United States and one thousandth of the nation’s biogas potential. In addition, only 15% of the wastewater treatment flow in the US produces biogas that is used as a source of energy; the rest of the wastewater flows either do not produce biogas at all, or produce biogas that is wastefully flared instead of captured for heat or power. In contrast, Sweden currently produces 0.3% of their annual energy usage from biogas, primarily from the wastewater treatment sector. This report analyzes the policy incentives and barriers that exist for the production and utilization of biogas as well as the policy and institutional factors that have contributed to Sweden’s relative biogas success. Based on this analysis, the authors make recommendations for policy measures that would increase biogas production in the United States. These recommendations include R&D to promote technological advancement with digesters, state and national environmental objectives, state and national renewable energy quotas, financial support for biogas operations, state biogas education and support programs, and infrastructure improvements that facilitate biogas use. Such policy incentives would promote both biogas production and use, and thereby help increase the market penetration of a domestically-produced, renewable, low-carbon fuel.
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