Waste management regulation: policy solutions and policy shortcomings

  • A model of packaging waste management is presented to explore the policy options available to governments to implement waste regulation in light of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Our model endogenizes the packaging design as an additional determinant for the overall amount of waste jointly with consumers’ sorting effort and producers output decisions. The model shows that the policies that yield the first-best allocation may not find public support. Furthermore, if the set of available policy instruments is limited, production and consumption of the good is likely to settle on a sub-optimal level even though the optimal allocation may be achievable. Finally, the model demonstrates that a landfill tax may actually increase landfill waste in the presence of tradable credits for recycling activities. The results shed light on some shortcomings of existing regulatory schemes such as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations of the UK.

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Author: Wolfram BergerORCiD, Yoko Nagase
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12137
ISSN:1467-9485
ISSN:0036-9292
Title of the source (English):Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Document Type:Scientific journal article peer-reviewed
Language:English
Year of publication:2018
Volume/Year:65
Issue number:3
First Page:205
Last Page:223
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 5 Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft / FG VWL, insbesondere Makroökonomik
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