recycling of wastewater sludge. …

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 …

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 …

exhaustible natural resources. In particular, we analyze the recycling process and the material balance principle, two fundamental … aspects of a circular economy. When market failures arise or complete recycling is not possible for technical reasons, then …