Incentive or Punitive Measure? Analysis of Environmental Regulations in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling

Abstract

In order to investigate the formulation of appropriate environmental regulations in construction and demolition waste (CDW) recycling, this paper establishes a CDW recycling decision-making system consisting of a contractor, a developer, and the government and analyses the decision-making results and influencing factors of the various stakeholders. Three different types of environmental regulations have been considered in the model: (i) no regulation, (ii) incentive regulation, and (iii) punitive regulation. The research shows that the incentive regulation offers the constructor greater incentives to recycle CDW and yields higher profits for members of the system, and however, when recycling is very costly and CDW is highly damaging, punitive regulation should be implemented, as the incentive regulation leads to lower social welfare. In addition, governments should be more cautious when adopting incentive regulation, because social welfare may be negative under this condition whereas there is no such possibility under the punitive regulation.

Incentive Regulation of Construction Waste Resource Recycling: Subsidy and Tax Incentive

“…Some scholars also discussed the development of the construction waste resource utilization industry [10], decision-making behaviors of stakeholders [28], and key factors afecting the development of construction waste resource utilization [29,30]. Among them, the research on regulation mainly focuses on stakeholder behavior decision-making under environmental regulation of construction waste [31,32] and economic beneft under incentive regulation [13] and so on. However, based on the current situation of construction waste recycling in China, the author fnds that the conduction path of incentive regulation efect is not clear enough after the regulation is implemented, especially tax incentive regulation.…”

“…Li et al [36] analyzed the impact of supply chain members' decisions on environmental performance from an environmental perspective. Yang et al [32] established a decision-making model including the government, construction waste recycling enterprises, and consumers and optimized the construction waste resource utilization system by adjusting the factors infuencing environmental benefts. Han et al [37] clarifed how consumers' green preferences and government subsidies afect decision-making in the supply chain.…”

Compressive Strength of Concrete Using Lightweight Brick Waste as the Substitute for Fine Aggregate

“…Approximately 2.379 billion tons of construction waste were produced in 2017, with only 11,900 tons being used as resources [14]. 80% of waste generated from materials used during construction processed can be reused [15]. Poor managed construction waste can negatively impact the environment [16].…”