We summarize the economics of recycling municipal solid waste. OECD data suggest that aggregate recycling rates in member countries have plateaued in recent decades. United States recycling rates for some materials remain low, even after decades of learning and participation. Major new policies...

Deposit systems for one-way beverage containers are widely supported by green activists and have been implemented in several countries. This paper analyzes whether such deposit systems can optimally internalize the externalities that result when consumers dump these containers. It is shown that...

The Circular Economy package may contribute to economic growth with new job creation, added value, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and administrative burden. Focusing on higher materials recycling target, this paper appraises the economic implications. The hypothesis that higher recycling...

In the current European context, member states have increasingly effective and efficient concerns in the field of sustainable waste management. To this effect, the European Commission has adopted a package of measures in order to stimulate Europe's transition to a circular economy, which first...

The "circular economy" package put forward by the European Commission in 2015 is an ambitious plan in the area of environmental protection. The aim of this legal framework is to replace what is nowadays referred to as the "linear economy", in which people consume and throw away, with an economic...

Das Buch bietet ein umfassendes Framework für die Berücksichtigung von Nachhaltigkeit in der Logistik. Nachhaltige Logistik umfasst Green Logistics und City-Logistik und bedeutet die Ausrichtung der Logistikfunktionen Transport, Lagerung und Verpackung an den Zielen der Nachhaltigkeit. Green...

Packaging, packaging waste and agriculture are separate, distinct concepts for Romania in 2015; they seem to have nothing in common. By bringing these words together and thoroughly studying the areas which they represent, we noticed that they are the starting point in defining a new concept:...

Packaging, packaging waste and agriculture are separate, distinct concepts for Romania in 2015; they seem to have nothing in common. By bringing these words together and thoroughly studying the areas which they represent, we noticed that they are the starting point in defining a new concept:...

Die deutsche Verpackungsverordnung hat in den letzten zwanzig Jahren das Umweltbewusstsein der Verbraucher erhöht und die Entsorgungswirtschaft zu einem florierenden Wirtschaftszweig gemacht. Allerdings ist die Verpackungsverordnung im Laufe der Zeit wegen Vollzugs- und Wettbewerbsdefiziten...

All European Union (EU) member states have to comply with the demanding recycling rates targets that were set for the recovery of packaging waste in the Directive 94/62/EC. Nevertheless, each country has its own system for accomplishing these targets. Some already had national legislation when...

The recycling of packaging waste is an objective of the Community with very ambitious recycling rate targets laid down in the European law. Research on the operations and on the financial and economic costs that resulted from this environmental policy is an ongoing effort. Currently, there is...

Seit über zwei Jahrzehnten steht die Kreislaufführung von Einweggetränkeverpackungen im Fokus umweltpolitischer Diskussionen. Durch die allgemeinen Regelungen der Verpackungsverordnung sowie ihre speziell auf Getränkeverpackungen ausgerichteten Paragraphen versucht der Gesetzgeber, den...

Die Studie wurde im Auftrag der Gütersloher Agentur AD HOC European Relations und Prof. Dr. Johann D. Hellwege durchgeführt. Sie hat zum Ziel, den Entsorgungsmarkt in Deutschland, seine Rahmenbedingungen und damit auch die Wettbewerbssituation genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Die Studie zeigt...

This paper describes how market and technological change can be conceived to affect corporatist politics in the area of waste management. The paper adopts a political economy approach to institutional change which seeks to trace the impact of market and technological change on established...

Deposit systems for one-way beverage containers are widely supported by green activists and have been implemented in several countries. This paper analyzes whether such deposit systems can optimally internalize the externalities that result when consumers dump these containers. It is shown that...

By analyzing Germany's voluntary Dual Management System for Packaging Waste Collection and Recycling (DSD), the paper highlights two aspects crucial for assessing voluntary environmental agreements from an antitrust viewpoint. First, specific features of DSD's governance structure are argued to...

This paper describes how market and technological change can be conceived to affect corporatist politics in the area of waste management. The paper adopts a political economy approach to in-stitutional change which seeks to trace the impact of market and techological change on estab-lished...

In der vorliegenden Studie überprüfen wir verschiedene Gebührenstrategien der Dualen System Deutschland AG (DSD) darauf hin, ob sie die pareto-effiziente Allokation in der Abfallwirtschaft implementieren. Dabei greifen wir auf eine disaggregierte Modellökonomie zurück, in der Material...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf der Grundlage eines statischen allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodells die Effizienz verschiedener Gebührenkonzepte einer Abfall-Management-Organisation. Diese wird von den Produzenten, die für die Verwertung und/oder Entsorgung der Verpackungsabfälle...

The paper reconsiders arguments raised from the viewpoint of competition policy against Germany’s centralized Dual Management System for Packaging Waste Collection and Recycling. It is argued that centralization is the result of a basic principle of German waste management policy, namely, the...