Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this … more important from a cost-minimizing point of view than the institutional mode of waste collection. In particular, the bag …, we illustrate that lower administrative costs and a smaller waste quantity are the most important drivers of cost …

Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households … have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste streams depending on how much effort households are willing to spend …

We study the implications of the Chinese waste import ban of 2018 on intraEuropean plastic waste trade. Specifically …, we ask if it led to a "waste haven" effect, which would imply that countries with high disposal and recycling costs … started to export more plastic waste to countries with lower costs. We study this question in a gravity difference …

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … unit-based pricing, avoiding a duo-bin or unsorted and compostable waste, and moving back the frequency of collecting … unsorted and compostable waste at the curbside are effective in raising the recycling rate. However, only unit-based pricing …