Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s

This article examines the growth of waste and recycling sector in Sweden since 1970s seeks to identify conditions for market underlying business dynamics. The identifies a slow pattern at aggregate level 1970s, while major shift toward higher rates took place only mid-1990s. Resembling findings existing studies German US industry counterparts, Swedish companies grew larger more knowledge-intensive from 1980s. Our study concludes that has been driven not by government policies addressing household but even so large manufacturing firms have increasingly demanded complex services over time.