Regulations specify the maximum amount of waste that can be stored on site by a waste generating firm. When this … regulatory threshold is reached, a polluting firm must move its on site waste to an off site recipient. In this setting, we … analyze two questions in a stochastic framework from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient that have received …

Municipal waste management in the last two decades has become a global environmental priority in the context of … increasing amounts of waste generated due to the development of a mass consumer society. Various issues of waste management … current literature on waste management issue and on another hand analyses the geographical contributions in this field. Our …

In the debate on international waste trade, the focus on resource efficiency and recycling has gradually begun to … Responsibility (EPR) on the export of waste batteries (WB). EPR is considered as a key policy for the "marketization of waste". On … the other hand, WB are a hazardous waste that also contain a high concentration of critical raw materials. As such, they …

In this paper we apply the Lenzen and Reynolds (2014) Waste Supply Use Table extension of Nakamura and Kondo's (2002a …) Waste Input-Output (WIO) framework to the 2008 Australian economy. This is the first application of any WIO-style method to … Australia as a nation. We find that the Services sector has the largest direct and indirect waste generation for an intermediate …

Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households … have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste streams depending on how much effort households are willing to spend …

Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households … have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste streams depending on how much effort households are willing to spend …

present and describe a new method for the treatment of gaseous waste that is economically feasible. It focuses on diverting …

The exposure of rural communities to illegal waste dumping practices associated with the lack of or poor waste … amounts of household uncollected waste released into the natural environment outside the official statistics of rural … dumpsites. Despite the expansion of waste collection coverage towards rural areas since 2010, the problem of illegal dumping …

This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent … greatly from policies enacted for yard waste, because these two materials are very different from each other. A surgical …

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 …