Efficiency Effects of Unit-based Pricing Systems and Institutional Choices of Waste Collection

Economic incentives and the quality of domestic waste: counterproductive effects through ‘waste leakage’

In this paper, we show that introducing a unit–based fee for the collection of household waste may lead to undesirable environmental impacts. Such a fee provides households incentives to generate lower quality organic waste as a form of dumping. An applied general equilibrium model is built that incorporates organic waste in high quality, low quality, and rest waste, including the possibility o...

Sustainable solid waste management: An appraisal of institutional limitations

This study investigates the underlying factors elucidating why solid waste management in Eldoret Town, Kenya, has up to now remained inadequate notwithstanding the existing legal framework that mandates the County Government of Uasin Gishu to ensure that all residents have access to a clean and healthy environment. The study adopted a descriptive research design. While, primary data were collec...

“ Effects of unit - based pricing on the waste collection demand : a meta - regression analysis ”

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 incr...

Investigating on the Effects of Congestion Pricing on Increasing Public Transit Share

Nowadays, traffic management policy in metropolitans is focused on increasing the share of public transit. The limitation of supply and slowing growth of road infrastructures have provided congestion for users who choose personal cars. Therefore, applying demand management policies which decrease the utility of personal cars and increase the tendency to public transit can be very important. Con...