The cost-effectiveness of plastic recycling is compared to energy recovery from plastic incineration in a waste-to-energy plant using data for the Netherlands. Both options have specific benefits and costs. The benefits of recycling are the avoidance of both CO2 that otherwise would be emitted...

Dank hochinnovativer Unternehmen hat sich die privatwirtschaftlich organisierte Wertstoffsammlung und -verwertung zu einem deutschen Erfolgsmodell entwickelt. Doch eine geplante Rekommunalisierung droht all diese Erfolge zu erodieren.

The European Commission is taking serious steps towards realising the concepts of 'recycle, repair and re-use' and avoiding waste at all stages of the value chain with its EU circular economy package (December 2015). Besides setting new recycling and landfilling targets to enforce member states...

We analyze the effects of an announced future carbon tax increase on the extraction behavior of a monopolistic supplier of a scarce fossil energy resource like oil in a two country, two period general equilibrium model with symmetric and homothetic preferences and no extraction costs. Based on...

This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...

"L'économie circulaire est "un concept économique qui s'inscrit dans le cadre du développement durable et dont l'objectif est de produire des biens et des services tout en limitant la consommation et le gaspillage des matières premières, de l'eau et des sources d'énergie" (Ministère de...

La 4e de couverture indique "Que ce soit d'un point de vue économique, social, environnemental ou même sanitaire, le gâchis est partout. Il est à la croisée de la plupart des maux actuels : pollution, réchauffement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, de la biodiversité et impacts sur...