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A cost-effectiveness analysis for incineration or recycling of Dutch household plastics
Gradus, Raymond; Van Koppen, Rick; Dijkgraaf, Elbert; … - 2016
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 …
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Urban water systems in India : a way forward
Shah, Mihir - 2016
Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been understood in an undifferentiated manner, which ignores the specificities deriving from the stage of urban development, the sources of water, as also the diverse nature of...
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Imperfect competition in the recycling industry
Eichner, Thomas - 2003
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 …
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Efficient and sustainable management of product durability and recyclability
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2000
In a dynamic general equilibrium model we explictly consider the relationship between the product attributes 'durability' and 'recyclability'. Both efficiency and sustainability aspects are taken into account. It turns out (a) that durability may be inefficient even in a perfectly competitive...
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Recycling, producer responsibility and centralized waste management
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 1999
This paper examines a Waste Management Organisation's (WMO) pricing options to implement the Pareto-efficient allocation in an economy where materials are first extracted, then used for producing a consumption good and finally recycled or landfilled. The WMO is established by the producers who...
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Product design and efficient management of recycling and waste treatment
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 1999
product design. If all markets for embodied material per unit output fail and if recycling benefit exceeds environmental …
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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000
In this paper we consider a competitive economy with flows of materials from extraction via recycling to landfilling … stimulates recycling as expected. But it also increases primary material extraction and - possibly - the total waste flow, and it … reduces the recycling ratio. …
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The market for wastewater sludge (biosolids)
Søgaard, Villy - 2016
recycling of wastewater sludge. …
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Post separation of plastic waste : better for the environment and lower collection costs
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - 2016
The European Union (EU) advocates a plastic waste recycling rate of more than 55% through home separation by households …. Even for the Netherlands, which has already invested heavily in plastic recycling policies, there is still a challenge to … recycling plastic waste increases, if post separation is chosen. …
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Die Analyse der Materialintensität von Infrastrukturen zur Unterstützung eines integrierten Ressourcenmanagements
Bringezu, Stefan - 2000
Die Wirkungen von Stoffströmen sind abhängig von der umgesetzten Menge und den spezifischen Auswirkungen pro Mengeneinheit. Die Menge der Extraktion an Primärmaterial aus der Umwelt kann als vorsorgeorientierter Indikator für ein unspezifisches Umweltbelastungspotential herangezogen werden....
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