The economics of household garbage and recycling behavior
By: edited by Don Fullerton, Thomas C. Kinnaman ; foreword by Tom Tietenberg.
Contributors: Fullerton, Don.; Kinnaman, Thomas C.
Series: New horizons in environmental economics
Publisher: E. Elgar Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal -- Economic aspects; Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Economic aspects
Description: "The market for residential solid waste management and disposal has experienced dramatic changes over the past 20 years. This collection of outstanding published research examines these changes and thoroughly analyzes the strategies popularized by municipal governments over the past two decades." "Curbside recycling, unheard of in the 1970s, in currently available to 46% of Americans. Thousands of towns across the nation have also implemented user fees requiring households to pay a fee for every bag of garbage they generate. These policy shifts have attracted the attention of environmental economists interested in knowing the best strategy for managing solid waste. The editors, both long-time scholars of these trends, offer theoretical solutions for the optimal pricing of garbage of recycling collection. They provide original data collection and suggest appropriate econometric techniques that correct for statistical biases. A policy focus provides information relevant to municipal governments as well as researchers." "This volume will be useful for policymakers, students and scholars in environmental economics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economics of residential solid waste management / T. Kinnaman and D. Fullerton; title: Garbage, recycling, and illicit burning or dumping / D. Fullerton and T. Kinnaman; title: How a fee per-unit garbage affects aggregate recycling in a model with heterogeneous households / T. Kinnaman and D. Fullerton; title: Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag / D. fullerton and T. Kinnamon; title: Policies for green design / D. Fullerton and W. Wu; title: Garbage and recycling with endogenous local policy / T. Kinnaman and D. Fullerton; title: Explaining household demand for the collection of solid waste and recycling / T. Kinnaman; title: Environmental levies and distortionary taxation : comment / D. Fullerton; title: The case for a two-part instrument : presumptive tax and environmental subsidy / D. Fullerton and A. Wolverton.