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Flambard, Véronique; Lasserre, Pierre; Mohnen, Pierre A. - 2004

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An optimisation approach to road sanitation workforce planning using differential evolution

Ighravwe, Desmond Eseoghene; Oke, Sunday Ayoola; … - In: Journal of urban management 9 (2020) 4, pp. 398-407

At present, labour unions of waste disposal agencies and company management are at loggerheads, frequently turning out contradictory sanitation assessments. This reveals a shifting outlook of sanitation accomplishment that should be resolved. Unfortunately, there is scanty research on road...

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Snow Removal Auctions in Montreal : Costs, Informational Rents, and Procurement Management

Flambard, Véronique; Lasserre, Pierre; Mohnen, Pierre - 2007

Using semi-parametric and non-parametric estimation techniques, we infer cost distributions and informational rents from 457 bids for snow removal contracts offered for tender by the City of Montreal between 1990 and 1998. Bids and costs have decreased over the sample period, while rents...

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A Kuznets Curve for recycling

Pittel, Karen - 2006

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Rationally expected externalities : the implications for optimal waste discharge and recycling

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Cross-country study of waste prevention and recycling

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Imperfect competition in the recycling industry

Eichner, Thomas - 2003

recycled and finally landfilled, and where a recycling firm has market power. The material content constitutes an aspect of … green product design and affects the recycling costs. Although the recycling firm's supply of recycling services is … proposed which correct for market failures. One promising candidate is a relative recycling standard combined with a …

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Efficient and sustainable management of product durability and recyclability

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2000

In a dynamic general equilibrium model we explictly consider the relationship between the product attributes 'durability' and 'recyclability'. Both efficiency and sustainability aspects are taken into account. It turns out (a) that durability may be inefficient even in a perfectly competitive...

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Recycling, producer responsibility and centralized waste management

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 1999

This paper examines a Waste Management Organisation's (WMO) pricing options to implement the Pareto-efficient allocation in an economy where materials are first extracted, then used for producing a consumption good and finally recycled or landfilled. The WMO is established by the producers who...

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Product design and efficient management of recycling and waste treatment

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 1999

product design. If all markets for embodied material per unit output fail and if recycling benefit exceeds environmental …

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