To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted … worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To … account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we employ the synthetic control method on a unique panel of monthly waste …

The collection of solid waste and the recovery of recyclable material from waste belong to the many challenges Cuba has … been facing over the past years. In this paper, we give a short account of the actual waste situation and analyze the … causes of the obvious deficiencies of the waste sector. We conducted a small survey in Havana city in order to assess peoples …