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 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 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 …

theoretically and empirically the strategic importance played by cognitive elements as part of “territorial capital” in mediating … cognitive elements as part of territorial capital magnify the contribution of knowledge by determining the formation of …

decisions is a Pareto-equilibrium. Nowadays most of capital supply stems from individual and institutionalised pension savings …. For ease of exposition we will assume that individual and collective pension savings are the only source of capital supply …. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium on the capital market with a corresponding equilibrium …

Champions of sustainable growth often call for more durable production technologies with less capital depreciation. As … investment in more durable capital is encouraged by lower interest rates, we investigate whether policy makers can steer the … economy towards a path with low interest rates in order to stimulate more durable capital formation. We study this question …