Unit pricing of household garbage in Melbourne : improving welfare, reducing garbage, or neither?

Charging for household garbage collection per unit of waste is becoming more popular. Discussions in the practical literature focus on unit pricing as a way to encourage diversion to recycling and reduction in waste, but the economics literature emphasizes welfare maximization through charging at th...

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Publié dans:Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA. - 1991. - 26(2008), 6 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 508-14
Auteur principal: Pickin, Joe (Auteur)
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2008
Accès à la collection:Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Sujets:Journal Article