The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that …

In this paper we analyze the importance of recycling in the strive for sustainable development. In contrast to former … in this economy. The intuition is, that, as waste is a valuable resource in our model, not recycling part of it, cannot …