The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies
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 frequency of c... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / Q18 / Q38 / R11 / R15 / Recycling / waste policy / local government / Netherlands |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29048981 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/107867 |