The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies
__Abstract__ The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given the experience, it is possible to learn from the Dutch experience which policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that unit-based pricing, avoiding a duo-bin or unsorted and compostable waste, and moving back the f... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
Schlagwörter: | Recycling / waste policy / local government / Netherlands |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26677886 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/77400 |