This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts … policies and the levels of garbage and recycling collected in the community. A simple sequential model of local policymaking is … cross-section of towns without user fees but with and without curbside recycling programs. The combined data set is larger …

This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering … recycling. The model explains (1) why some households participate in curbside recycling programs even in the absence of a user …-wide quantities of garbage, recycling, and litter. We show how an increase in the user fee can decrease aggregate recycling …

waste generation, and in which firms use primary and recycled inputs to produce output that has two `attributes': packaging … producers to reduce packaging and to design products that can more easily be recycled. But if local governments are constrained … attributes can still be achieved by a tax on producers' use of packaging and subsidy to producers' use of recyclable designs …

number of factors influencing recycling emerge. The warm glow from being both an environmentalist and an environmental group …Economic theory predicts that individual recycling behavior gravitates toward extremes--either diligent recycling or no … recycling at all. Using a nationally representative sample of 3,158 bottled water users, this article finds that this prediction …

This paper treats programs in which firms voluntarily agree to meet environmental standards as "green clubs": clubs … environmental public goods. The model illuminates a central tension between the congestion externality familiar from conventional … common program sponsors--governments, industry, and environmental groups. We find that if monitoring of the club standard is …

There are two commonly accepted views about command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulation. First, CAC delivers … environmental outcomes at very high cost. Second, in a developing country with weak regulatory institutions, CACs may not even yield … environmental benefits: regulators can force firms to install pollution abatement equipment, but cannot ensure that they use it. We …

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic … performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five … environmental regulations faced by firms are positively associated with a greater probability of reducing COD emissions; also, there …

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using …