Centralized collection and disposal is an integral component of waste management strategies for many solid and liquid wastes, and carbon capture and storage is currently being considered for gaseous waste. In this paper we show how collective waste disposal systems introduce essential changes in the design of optimal environmental policy. Absent collective disposal, an optimal environmental pol...

Electronic  waste  or  E-waste  is  relatively  a  novel  addition  to  the  ever-growing  hazardous waste stream. It includes discarded electronic and electrical equipment. Developing countries face enormous challenges which are related to the generation and management of E-waste which are either internally generated or imported illegally; India is no exception. However, the existing managemen...

EC HAZARDOUS WASTE LEGISLATION 2 The Environmental Action Programs 2 Polluter Pays Principle 3 The Growth of the European Environmental Movement 4 The Framework Directives on Waste 5 Transfrontier Movement of Hazardous Waste 6 The SEA and Environmental Policy 12 Monitoring for Compliance 14 Subsidiarity and Environmental Policy 15 HAZARDOUS WASTE LEGISLATION IN GERMANY 17 The German Waste Oil D...

This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on a 8-years panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and robust average landfill diversion. Spatial effects seem to be negligible, probably due to the strong dece...

The environmental impact of a regional trade agreement towards liberalization is an empirical question. The paper estimates the economic and environmental impacts of alternative trade policies of liberalization between six East Asian countries using Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) framework. The finding reveals that Japan will be in a winwin situation followed by Republic of Korea after ta...

Municipal Experience with "Pay-As-You-Throw" Policies: Findings From a National Survey Based on a large, nationally representative sample of cities with recycling programs, this study examines whether a Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) pricing policy for solid waste collection and disposal service is an incentive for households to change their waste disposal and recycling behaviors. The study finds that...

The main characteristics of the European environmental policy are reviewed. Focusing on EU policy on waste, the paper presents the principles on which EU waste management is founded, particularly the waste hierarchy. In this hierarchy, priority shall be given to prevention of the generation of wastes and of its hazardousness. Secondly, the reuse and the recovery of materials (recycling), which ...

States are often seen as policy laboratories where innovations are tried that may later be adopted by other states or the federal government. Engendering such experiments may, however, promote spillovers on other states. We analyze several of New York State's policy initiatives from the 1980s that were intended to influence the selection of waste management technologies by hazardous waste gener...

France’s policy on waste, like its environmental policy in general, is strongly influenced by Community policy. It has progressively diversified its objectives: public hygiene, security, reduction in the environmental impact of different treatments and, more recently, prevention and recycling. These main orientations are contained in the July 15 1975 law amended by the July 13 1992 law on elimi...

Resumen: The waste crisis in Campania is a clear example of a complex system since it involves multiple dimensions that affect each other in a dynamic manner and cannot be described from an isolated and static perspective. This paper is focused on the waste crisis in Campania taking into account all the factors involved, including demographic, technological, social, environmental and economic i...