This study analyzes the second-best household's waste recycling policy. If we assume the first-best economy with no … illegal disposal or transaction costs, then unit pricing, an advance disposal fee and a recycling subsidy are required in … pricing and a recycling subsidy are equal to the marginal disposal cost. Furthermore, the first-best outcome can also be …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between recycling policy options and recycling behavior to study the … characteristics, recycling program attributes, and garbage collection financing methods. We find that user fees on garbage collection … have significant impacts on recycling levels for all materials except toxic chemicals, and mandatory recycling programs on …

into a consumer surplus measure of tax burden. Carbon taxation is regressive before revenue recycling. However, taking into … account the benefits from congestion reduction induced by the tax mitigates regressivity. We show also that recycling …