This paper provides a review of economic studies that analyse the use of multiple policies to cope with waste … analysed works, the originality of waste as an environmental problem to regulate. This traditional approach that decisions …

An important stand of the economic literature focuses on how to provide the right incentives for households to recycle … their waste. This body of work includes a growing number of studies inspired by psychology that seek to explain waste … recycle based on three main household characteristics: environmental preferences, opportunity cost of their tax expenditure …

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

This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It … presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice … of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at the source of generation, and the growing volume of plastic in the …

Open dumping of waste and discharging untreated wastewater into environment are key causes of environmental pollution … in the developing world, including South Asian countries. Waste and wastewater however can be a source for recovering … organizations and various stakeholders involved in the waste and wastewater management sectors, government policies and legislation …

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 …