This study seeks to explore the effect of a policy intervention designed to simplify curbside recycling standards for plastic waste separation on recycling volume and quality. We employ a causal impact analysis based on a Bayesian structural time series approach to estimate the effect of...

This paper estimates the average social cost of municipal waste management as a function of the recycling rate. Social costs include all municipal costs and revenues, costs to recycling households to prepare materials estimated with an original method, external disposal costs, and external...