The global use of delivery vehicles with combustion motors is increasingly responsible for air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For this reason, the use of electric vehicles is discussed in order to minimize the emissions of increasing freight traffic. In many...

This paper provides an explanation why garbage as a measure of consumption implies a several times lower coefficient of relative risk aversion in the consumption-based asset pricing model than consumption based on the official National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA): Unlike garbage, NIPA...

Safe and human friendly environment is one of the most important issues in world today. This paper has addressed one of such important issue, the treatment of environmental hazard in form of solid waste in Peshawar District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The study aimed at finding out the...

Picking a way through rubbish -- Consumers as workers in economies of waste -- Environmentally regimented rubbish : recycling systems in Sweden -- Market and state heterogeneity : recycling systems in England -- The three stages of recycling consumption work -- Comparing recycling consumption...

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availability for consumption. The data serve as popular proxies for actual consumption at the national level...

Intensive discussions about discarding food in recent weeks were prompted by a study commissioned by the German Bundestag and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection. Spiegel online said on March 13, 2012: "Europe's waste would suffice twice to...

Am 1. Juni 2012 tritt in Deutschland die Novelle des Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes in Kraft. Mit ihr sollen gleichermaßen europarechtliche Vorgaben (Richtlinie 2008/98/EG) erfüllt, sowie der weitere Umbau zu einer Stoffstromwirtschaft vorangetrieben werden. Von besonderer Bedeutung für...

Vergleichsstudien zum Thema Hausmüllgebühren belegen, dass für die Erbringung identischer Entsorgungsleistungen teils gravierende Gebührenunterschiede zwischen den deutschen Kreisen bzw. Städten bestehen. Ziel des vorliegenden Arbeitsberichts ist es, mithilfe statistischer Methoden...

In den letzten Wochen wurde intensiv das Wegwerfen von Lebensmitteln diskutiert. Anlass war das Ergebnis einer Studie, die vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Bundestags gefördert wurde. In Spiegel online wurde am 13.03.2012...

Verschiedene überregionale Hausmüllgebührenvergleiche haben gezeigt, dass für vermeintlich gleiche Leistungen teilweise stark unterschiedliche Gebühren erhoben werden. In diesem Arbeitsbericht soll auf Basis einer Literaturrecherche sowie eigener Überlegungen herausgestellt werden, durch...

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 first signals of increasing relative delinking and...

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 official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that...