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Fuzzy Game Approach Network Data Envelopment Analysis Models for the Waste Management Performance Evaluation

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Measuring the performance of national wastes is essential for ensuing the environmental protection and moving toward the circular economy objective. To cope with the uncertainty involving in many circular indicators, this study first proposed a fuzzy game approach network data envelopment analysis model for the waste management evaluation. The proposed model considers maximizing the potential joint efficiencies of the production and recycling processes simultaneously from the centralized control and circular economy perspective. A real-case study on assessing the waste management performance of European Union countries is provided. The factor efficiency analysis and associated ranks of the process efficiencies provide a guidance for identifying the factor dominance in the production and recycling processes. A comparison of the proposed method with other approaches is also included. Our results provide the European Union policy makers a valuable information to move waste management up the European Union waste hierarchy by allowing reusing, recycling, and recovering energy from the waste.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    F.-B. Liu

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan

    C.-F. Hu

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Liu, FB., Hu, CF. Fuzzy Game Approach Network Data Envelopment Analysis Models for the Waste Management Performance Evaluation. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 25, 3193–3203 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-023-01565-3

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