. Becker's article entitled “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach”, to explain why under current conditions more waste …

and keeping our environment clean and comfort to live in. Thus managing waste and scraps is important to produce clean and … waste, scraps, and pollution is needed. Relocating the waste, scraps, and pollutants will not solve the problems. It only … creates new problems. Poor management of waste, scraps, and pollutions will not give solutions. This article tries to offer …

waste shipments. Using data on intercounty waste flows in California and a random utility model of haulers’ decisions about … where to deposit waste from each county, this paper studies the economic costs of import bans and import taxes and the … implications on the distribution of waste disposal by race (and ethnicity). I find NIMBY-motivated laws would reduce intercounty …

This paper examines the causal impacts of reducing solid waste imports on water quality in China, which was the world …’s largest importer of waste until recently. We focus on the National Sword policy, introduced at the end of 2017, which abruptly … banned the import of plastics, textiles, vanadium slag, and paper, reducing waste imports from 1.25 million tons per month to …

Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic …

The exposure of rural communities to illegal waste dumping practices associated with the lack of or poor waste … amounts of household uncollected waste released into the natural environment outside the official statistics of rural … dumpsites. Despite the expansion of waste collection coverage towards rural areas since 2010, the problem of illegal dumping …

cities - particularly in Africa and Asia - collect less than half of the waste generated. Most wastes are disposed of in open …-income communities and slums lack appropriate waste management services. Given the rapid population growth and urbanization in many … exist in improving the management of waste in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is argued that, despite a worsening trend …