-to-energy plant using data for the Netherlands. Both options have specific benefits and costs. The benefits of recycling are the …The cost-effectiveness of plastic recycling is compared to energy recovery from plastic incineration in a waste … 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 … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that … in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and …

The Netherlands advocates a glass recycling rate of more than 90%. In 2017, the rate is 86%. To reach this goal the …

compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …

Sustainability ratings help consumers understand the environmental impact of their purchases. Such ratings have …. These results question the potential effectiveness of sustainability ratings for other products, such as food, where the … consumers use sustainability ratings when these ratings are dissociated from private benefit, i.e. product quality. Participants …