waste, and curb greenhouse gas emissions, yet few governments have enacted policies to move toward a circular model …, the majority of global resources is used and waste is produced in cities, and urban economies claim the largest share of … success: identifying and incentivizing waste as a resource; multi-governmental, regionally-based efforts; partnerships within …

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 …

radioactive materials (TENORM) and/or NORM waste from oil and gas operations to evaluate which states have developed the most … protective practices when regulating NORM and TENORM waste from unconventional oil and gas operations to reduce adverse …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of China's policy in 2017 to ban waste imports on air pollution. We exploit … the difference-in-differences strategy, which combines the time variation and the cross-prefecture variation in the waste … import before the policy change. We find that prefectures importing more waste in the pre-policy period experience more …

economic, social and environmental costs concerning the issue. The research focused on the concept of food waste in context of … waste of money. State waste management policy is focused on waste sorting, while this research provides the evidence that … households are insufficiently informed about economic, social and environmental costs concerning food waste. This underlines the …

waste shipments. Using data on intercounty waste flows in California and a random utility model of haulers’ decisions about … where to deposit waste from each county, this paper studies the economic costs of import bans and import taxes and the … implications on the distribution of waste disposal by race (and ethnicity). I find NIMBY-motivated laws would reduce intercounty …

This paper examines the causal impacts of reducing solid waste imports on water quality in China, which was the world …’s largest importer of waste until recently. We focus on the National Sword policy, introduced at the end of 2017, which abruptly … banned the import of plastics, textiles, vanadium slag, and paper, reducing waste imports from 1.25 million tons per month to …

Purpose: This study examines the factors that tend to affect citizens intent and behavior towards recycling. There are … several key factors that can influence this behavior, such as Individual perception and behavior towards recycling as well as … the spatial planning of recycling bins and the recycling culture. Design/methodology/approach: Taking these variables into …