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average figures often hide high variance. Their results provide food for thought for a future most comprehensive EU waste …We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental … and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on …
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public good. We find that diverse motivations are behind the reduction of food waste: extrinsic motivations nevertheless …Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste … management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in …
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Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both … from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally … comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to …
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This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It … presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice … of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at the source of generation, and the growing volume of plastic in the …
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This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel … dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some …, probably due to the strong decentralisation of waste management and policies: local, economic, policy and structural factors …
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In the debate on international waste trade, the focus on resource efficiency and recycling has gradually begun to … Responsibility (EPR) on the export of waste batteries (WB). EPR is considered as a key policy for the "marketization of waste". On … the other hand, WB are a hazardous waste that also contain a high concentration of critical raw materials. As such, they …
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The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...
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