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 … is borne out for consumer recycling of plastic water bottles. Both water bottle deposits and recycling laws foster …

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 …

Additional solid waste disposal imposes resource and environmental costs, but most residents still pay no additional … fee per marginal unit of garbage collection. In a simple model with garbage and recycling as the only two disposal options … all output plus a rebate on proper disposal either through recycling or garbage collection. This optimizing fee structure …

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 …. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of world MSW relative to their share of world population, while …

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1990, considering both total … between abatement costs and productivity. Other measures of environmental regulation faced by the plants (compliance status …

regulation. Guided by restrictive legislative mandates, regulatory policies often strike a quite different balance with an … policy efforts. Inadequate regulatory enforcement and behavioral responses to regulation may limit their effectiveness, while …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly … regulated producers are less polluting than their unregulated ounterparts, emissions under incomplete regulation can exceed the …

quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and …

responsible for 33 percent of world-wide trade-related emissions, and over 75 percent of emissions for major manufacturing … production emissions per dollar of exports are 16 percent below the world average, but once we include transport US emissions per … dollar exported are 59 percent above the world average. We use our data to systematically investigate whether trade inclusive …