This article shows that, apart from the environment-related externalities linked to waste management and recycling, which are reported in the previous literature, the technological aspect of recycling is an additional source of externalities. The main focus of the paper is the impact that the...

We study the optimal capacity and lifetime of landfills taking into account their sequential nature. Such an optimal capacity is characterized by the so-called Optimal Capacity Condition. Particular versions of this condition are obtained for two alternative settings: first, if all the landfills...