The European Union (EU) advocates a plastic waste recycling rate of more than 55% through home separation by households …. Even for the Netherlands, which has already invested heavily in plastic recycling policies, there is still a challenge to … recycling plastic waste increases, if post separation is chosen. …

The cost-effectiveness of plastic recycling is compared to energy recovery from plastic incineration in a waste …-to-energy plant using data for the Netherlands. Both options have specific benefits and costs. The benefits of recycling are the … significant costs, such as collection costs and recycling costs involved for plastic recycling by municipalities. The benefits of …

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that …

have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … guide recycling as well as legal disposal (landfilling) and illegal dumping. Both the number and level of taxes and …