Obsolete pesticides management - economic cost model for obsolete pesticides handling
2008
Lauridsen, J. | Steensen, S. | Lassen, C.
An economic model was developed to be used for the planning of obsolete pesticides inventories, repacking, collection, transporting, storage and final destruction. The cost model was developed in connection with a project on environmentally sound management of obsolete pesticides (OPs) in two regions of Russien Federation: Pskov and Vologda. The project was funded by the Danish Ministry of Environment. The project provided assistance in the two oblasts to prepare inventories of OPs; develop plans for future management and disposal of OPs; and demonstrate safe and environmentally sound management of obsolete pesticide stockpiles. The aim of the cost model was to provide useful input to the decision makers, namely the oblast authorities, in the process of developing an action plan for an environmentally sound management of OPs. The model computes the direct cost associated with disposing the OPs in an oblast based on OPs quantity data, location, distance, storage facilities, central storage facility etc. The model computes the various cost elements for the entire elimination process from OPs identification to their ultimate disposal. The cost model can be used at an initial phase of the development phase before the inventory of the OPs stocks and at a later stage of the development phase after the inventory. In the early state the cost estimate will not be very precise as the quantities of OPs stocks as well as their location will be rough estimates. Later in the process, when the inventory has been prepared, the model will yield more accurate cost estimates based on more accurate data on quantities, locations, distances, storage facilities, etc. The model is Excel-based with a user-friendly interface. The target groups of the model are government officers at Plant Protection Stations in charge of designing an action plan for an environmentally sound managememt of OPs.
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