ISBN:
9781035304622
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
New horizons in environmental economics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of household garbage and recycling behavior
DDC:
363.72/88
Keywords:
Refuse and refuse disposal Economic aspects
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.) Economic aspects
Abstract:
The market for residential solid waste management and disposal has experienced dramatic changes over the past 20 years. This collection of outstanding published research examines these changes and thoroughly analyzes the strategies popularized by municipal governments over the past two decades. Kerbside recycling, unheard of in the 1970s, is currently available to 46% of Americans. Thousands of towns across the nation have also implemented user fees requiring households to pay a fee for every bag of garbage they generate. These policy shifts have attracted the attention of environmental economists interested in knowing the best strategy for managing solid waste. The editors, both long-time scholars of these trends, offer theoretical solutions for the optimal pricing of garbage and recycling collection. They provide original data collection and suggest appropriate econometric techniques that correct for statistical biases. A policy focus provides information relevant to municipal governments as well as researchers. This excellent volume will be useful for policymakers, students and scholars in environmental economics
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword by tom tietenberg -- 1. The economics of residential solid waste management -- 2. Garbage, recycling, and illicit burning or dumping -- 3. How a fee per-unit garbage affects aggregate recycling in a model with heterogeneous households -- 4. Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag -- 5. Policies for green design -- 6. Garbage and recycling with endogenous local policy -- 7. Explaining household demand for the collection of solid waste and recycling -- 8. Explaining the growth in municipal recycling programs: The role of market and nonmarket factors -- 9. Environmental levies and distortionary taxation: Comment -- 10. The case for a two-Part Instrument: Presumptive tax and environmental subsidy -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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