Web Resources
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Recycling Economics: Higher Costs Are An Illusion |
Articles
The costs of municipal waste and recycling programs
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
v54 n11, September 2010, pp864–871
Books @ GFU
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Why Do We Recycle? Markets, values, and public policy by Publication Date: 1996 -
The Economics of Waste by Call Number: HD4483 .P67 2002Publication Date: 2002Chapters include: Market Failure in Recycling, Economics of Recycling, Policies for Recycling, Logistics of Recycling, and Markets for Recycling. -
Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling. by Publication Date: 2011Examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to present. Charts the complex network of business and political actors involved in the development of the reverse vending machine (RVM) and bottle deposit legislation to better understand the different historical trajectories empty beverage containers have taken across markets, including the U.S.
