The cost-effectiveness of plastic recycling is compared to energy recovery from plastic incineration in a waste …-to-energy plant using data for the Netherlands. Both options have specific benefits and costs. The benefits of recycling are the … significant costs, such as collection costs and recycling costs involved for plastic recycling by municipalities. The benefits of …

recycled and finally landfilled, and where a recycling firm has market power. The material content constitutes an aspect of … green product design and affects the recycling costs. Although the recycling firm's supply of recycling services is … proposed which correct for market failures. One promising candidate is a relative recycling standard combined with a …

competition in international markets. We investigate alternative policy measures for promoting paper recycling in seven European … for paper production. We then "translate" the standard into market-based instruments to illustrate how a common recycling …

potentially use some kind of waste in their production cycles, or that implement recycling and recovery programs. …

Der Umbau der gegenwärtigen Linearwirtschaft in eine Kreislaufwirtschaft ist Gegenstand des Aktionsplans der … Ausgestaltung von Wertschöpfungsprozessen und Geschäftsmodellen für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung der Kreislaufwirtschaft darzustellen. …

In this paper we analyze the implications of recycling for long-run economic development. In contrast to former … our model. We focus on the implications of recycling-related market failures and the integration of material balances on …

alternative explanation by showing that EKC's might arise simply due to the combination of recycling and the rising scarcity of … about the ability of recycling firms to internalize the in- terrelation between recycling decisions today and the future …

) and downstream (car recycling/recovery) of the ELV system can give rise to different "innovation paths", in accordance …The paper addresses the dynamic-incentive effect of environmental policy instruments when innovation is uncertain and … involved. The impact of economic instruments on innovation paths, in particular free take-back, is considered. Deficiencies or …