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 … over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …

exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by … proximity to a Superfund site on birth outcomes. This study suggests that the cleanup of severe toxic waste sites has …

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real …, which itself may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods (quot;international tradequot;). I first … show that most of the decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than …

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that … the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day … disposing of MSW vary widely across countries in accord with the nature of the waste stream and key features of the …

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

-friendly innovation, we focus on a process innovation, rather than on end-of-the-pipe solutions to pollution. Moreover, while previous …