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Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, vol.28, no.2, pp.994-1010, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Environmental sustainability ensures balance of nature for present and future generations’ and forms the essence of this study. Environmental pollution triggered by the greenhouse gases emissions has caused significant escalation of municipal waste which has become a major global problem. As a result, COP 27 acknowledged that municipal waste is a covert factor in climate change. This study is the first effort to investigate effects of municipal waste, renewable energy, and environmental technologies on the load capacity factor based on environmental sustainability. The econometric analysis employs the robust approaches i.e., Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, panel corrected standard errors, and Dumitrescu-Hurlin Granger causality test for top municipal waste-producing countries throughout 1995–2019. The empirical findings indicate that financial development, environmental technologies, and renewable energy promote environmental sustainability. However, economic growth and municipal waste worsen the environmental sustainability in the sample nations. Moreover, the interaction between municipal waste and environmental technologies enhances environmental sustainability. Given the results, the sample countries should adopt smart municipal waste management strategies, environmental technologies, and renewable energy sources to achieve environmental sustainability targets.