Municipal waste management as a local utility: Options for competition in an environmentally-regulated industry

Massarutto, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2006.09.003

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“…This outcome is counter-intuitive with respect to expectations, since transportation is one of the most costly activities in MW management, with a direct influence on unit costs (Massarutto, 2007). Being far from the facility would have to suggest to reduce the quantity of MW to be addressed to disposal, saving in this way the transportation costs, and to increase automatically the quota of selection.…”

Section: The Results Of the Empirical Analysismentioning

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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Silvestri

Ghinoi

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy's municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit charge for waste management, a result probably affected by the high degree of integration existing in Lombardy among collectors and disposal operators. On the contrary, we discover robust and significant correlation with a set of geographical, socio-economic, and political variables. Among the latter ones, we have a confirmations on the influence of party competition on the percentage of household recycling, with the left wing ruling parties more addressed to it than the rivals, and on the high correlation existing between MW selection and the implementation of a unit pricing scheme. Other positive correlations with the independent variable are shown by per-capita income, while quite surprisingly the education level of citizens seems to play no role. JEL: C21, L97, Q 53, R11;

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Section: The Results Of the Empirical Analysismentioning

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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Silvestri

Ghinoi

2015

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“…To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the …rst papers to model the MSW industry in all its phases and participating agents. Most of the existing literature on MSW and its management has focused on either: (i) the environmental implications of waste and policies to correct welfare distortions (Davies and Massarutto, 2007). The closest contribution to ours is Choe and Fraser (1999).…”

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Municipal Waste Collection: Market Competition and the EU Policy

Reggiani

Silvestri

2015

SSRN Journal

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Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Su¢ ciency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The e¤ect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers, with possible undesirable consequences for other …rms in the vertical chain. We show through a simple spatial model that one e¤ect of the Proximity Principle and Self-Su¢ ciency Principle is to provide an incentive to collectors and waste producers to increase the amount of separated waste.

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“…The Portuguese waste sector, in line with Massarutto (2007), is stratified into three distinct markets, regardless of their ownership and of possibly being provided by the same operator. The waste sector can be categorised into primary, secondary and tertiary markets (Marques and Simões 2009).…”

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The Market Structure of Urban Solid Waste Services: How Different Models Lead to Different Results

Simões

Cavalho

Marques

2013

Local Government Studies

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Urban waste services in Portugal have historically been provided together with other services, such as the water services. Despite the lack of discussion on this subject in the literature, some questions have been raised about the gains, in terms of efficiency, of this policy. Following a recent and robust partial nonparametric frontier model, based on order-α, we intend to evaluate the presence of economies of scope in the Portuguese waste sector. Furthermore, we also estimate the economies of scale using the traditional data envelopment analysis. The results show the absence of economies of scope between waste and water (and wastewater) services. In addition, we identify the presence of economies of scale in smaller municipalities. These outcomes might be useful for policy and decision makers in further reforms.

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Municipal waste management as a local utility: Options for competition in an environmentally-regulated industry

Cited by 70 publications

References 8 publications

Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Municipal Waste Collection: Market Competition and the EU Policy

The Market Structure of Urban Solid Waste Services: How Different Models Lead to Different Results

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