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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525481
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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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Understanding the economics of waste : drivers, policies, and external costs
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 8 (2014) 3/4, pp. 281-320
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Promoting residential recycling : an alternative policy based on a recycling reward system
Li, Tongzhe; Espinola-Arredondo, Ana; McCluskey, Jill J. - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-18
This paper analyzes a reward system that uses a club good to promote recycling. In particular, we examine a context of … incomplete information in which the administrator is unable to observe the resident’s attitude towards recycling. The results … recycling cost and penalties for garbage dumping are complementary tools that could also promote recycling. …
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The recycled self : consumers' disposal decisions of identity-linked products
Trudel, Remi; Argo, Jennifer J.; Meng, Matthew D. - In: Journal of consumer research : JCR ; an … 43 (2016) 2, pp. 246-264
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Efficient implementation of collective extended producer responsibility legislation
Gui, Luyi; Atasu, Atalay; Ergun, Özlem; Toktay, L. Beril - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 1098-1123
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483639
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Promoting residential recycling : an alternative policy based on a recycling reward system
Li, Tongzhe; Espinola-Arredondo, Ana; McCluskey, Jill J. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491084