Municipal solid waste charging schemes can be powerful drivers for local policy efforts in reaching the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on an economic lever to meet SDG 11,...

The supply of solid waste management service has always been a major environmental concern for the city of Kampala. The introduction of service charges in the area of solid waste management is getting much attention due to continuous financial shortage of the city government to provide this...

The City of Marietta, Georgia, experimentally switched from flat fee financing to volume‐based pricing for its trash services in January 1994. Both before and during the experiment, detailed data on individuals' observed responses to the actual introduction and contingent behavioral responses...

This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...

After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control of local service provisions in some sectors and countries and, instead, started providing those services themselves (reverse privatization). Using a unique panel data set on the mode of service provision...

Gebührensteigerungen und vor allem -differenzen bei der kommunalen Hausmüllentsorgung stehen seit mehreren Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die Bürger können die immensen Gebührenunterschiede bei gleichen Entsorgungsleistungen nicht nachvollziehen. Die Kommunen führen die...

In this paper, we examine whether combining non‐monetary and monetary incentives increases municipal solid waste sorting. We empirically investigate this issue, exploiting the exogenous variation in waste management policies experienced during the years 1999–2008 by the 95 municipalities in...

Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view...

This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999–2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a panel...

Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view...

This paper explores the organizing of household solid waste management collection and disposal practices in informal settlements. It is based on a case study of an NGO project supporting Manos Unidas ("Joined Hands"), an informal waste-picker cooperative in Managua, Nicaragua. Using horse carts,...

This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States. It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and...

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 Israel, the government currently implements various measures intended to reduce the amount of household waste sent to landfill. So far, however, these measures have resulted in only limited success. The commonly heard claim that municipalities prefer to continue sending waste to landfill...

This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the waste management policies experienced during the years 1999-2008 by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a...

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...

Der Arbeitsbericht beinhaltet erste Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie aus dem Jahre 2008 zu den Hausmüllgebühren in Deutschland. Basis dieser Untersuchung sind die Abfallgebührensatzungen von 1057 Kommunen, die durch eine Internetrecherche beschafft wurden. Diese Ausgangsdaten wurden zu 406...

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...