Weight-based pricing in the collection of household waste: the Oostzaan case

Linderhof, Vincent; Kooreman, Peter; Allers, Maarten; Wiersma, Doede

doi:10.1016/s0928-7655(01)00044-6

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“…The efficacy of waste charging system in increasing recycling and reducing waste generation has been a contentious issue in early research [12,13,61,[68][69][70]. In the present study, Garbage fee enters the waste generation equations with a negative sign but is uniformly insignificant across the columns (1), (3) and (5) in Table 3 at the 10% level.…”

Section: The Effects Of Source Separation and Garbage Fee Systemsmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…The effect of income will partially offset that of garbage fee. [68] United States Household level´0.076 Jenkins [69] United Kingdom Municipal level´0.12 Linderhof et al [70] Netherlands Household level´0.26 Kinnaman and Fullerton [14] United States Community level´0.28 Dijkgraaf and Gradus [76] Netherlands Municipal level´0.06 to´0.47 Present study China Municipal level´0.286…”

Section: The Interactive Effect Of Source Separation Programs and Garmentioning

confidence: 96%

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The Crowding-Out Effects of Garbage Fees and Voluntary Source Separation Programs on Waste Reduction: Evidence from China

2016

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This paper examines how and to what degree government policies of garbage fees and voluntary source separation programs, with free indoor containers and garbage bags, can affect the effectiveness of municipal solid waste (MSW) management, in the sense of achieving a desirable reduction of per capita MSW generation. Based on city-level panel data for years 1998-2012 in China, our empirical analysis indicates that per capita MSW generated is increasing with per capita disposable income, average household size, education levels of households, and the lagged per capita MSW. While both garbage fees and source separation programs have separately led to reductions in per capita waste generation, the interaction of the two policies has resulted in an increase in per capita waste generation due to the following crowding-out effects: Firstly, the positive effect of income dominates the negative effect of the garbage fee. Secondly, there are crowding-out effects of mandatory charging system and the subsidized voluntary source separation on per capita MSW generation. Thirdly, small subsidies and tax punishments have reduced the intrinsic motivation for voluntary source separation of MSW. Thus, compatible fee charging system, higher levels of subsidies, and well-designed public information and education campaigns are required to promote household waste source separation and reduction.

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Section: The Effects Of Source Separation and Garbage Fee Systemsmentioning

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The Crowding-Out Effects of Garbage Fees and Voluntary Source Separation Programs on Waste Reduction: Evidence from China

2016

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“…We do this by introducing dummies (F uit and F bit in (2)) which take the value one if UBP is introduced, and zero otherwise. 22 Linderhof et al (2001) found long-run elasticities that are slightly higher than short-run elasticities. In contrast to their result, we find that the introduction of UBP has a small but significant negative effect on unsorted waste quantities (Table 6, column 3).…”

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confidence: 95%

Effects of Unit-Based Garbage Pricing: A Differences-in-Differences Approach

Allers

Hoeben

2009

Environ Resource Econ

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Using a unique 10-year dataset of all 458 Dutch municipalities, we apply a differences-in-differences approach to estimate the effect of unit-based pricing on household waste quantities and recycling. Community-level studies of unit-based pricing typically do not include fixed effects at the local level. We find that failure to do so may substantially inflate the estimated price effect. We also find that unit-based pricing may be endogenous, and use instrumental variables to account for this. Our analysis shows that user fees depend on user fees in neighboring jurisdictions (policy interaction). Our estimate of the garbage reduction per $1 user fee is lower than any previous estimate bar one. The price effect depends on the pricing system: weight-based systems reduce garbage quantities more than volume-based systems. User fees increase recycling, especially of paper, but not nearly as much as they reduce garbage quantities. We find no evidence for waste tourism or illegal dumping.

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“…The estimation results including the Bring-dummy are almost similar to the base model (see Table 7). The announcement effect can be driven by an environmental activism effect [see also Linderhof et al (2001)]. Dutch municipalities that introduced curbside collection or an UBP policy might be more environmentally orientated than municipalities that introduced such policies in later years.…”

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An EU Recycling Target: What Does the Dutch Evidence Tell Us?

Dijkgraaf

Gradus²

2016

Environ Resource Econ

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The European Union (EU) advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 65 %. Although the Netherlands has already invested heavily in recycling policies, this is still a big challenge as nowadays this rate is approximately 50 % on average and very few no municipalities have a rate above 65 %. Given this practice, it is possible to learn from the Dutch experience which policies are effective in increasing recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands, we show that unit-based pricing, avoiding a duo-bin for unsorted and compostable waste, and reducing the frequency of collecting unsorted and compostable waste at the curbside are effective in raising the recycling rate. However, only a bag-based pricing system has a substantial effect, but this policy can have some adverse effects. Other unit-based pricing systems have effects of less than 10 % points. In nearly all cases, changing the frequency of collection of recyclables has no or very small effects. Moreover, the complementarity between unit-based pricing and curbside service is low. Overall, it seems very difficult to reach the EU goal of 65 % with the policies applied.

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Weight-based pricing in the collection of household waste: the Oostzaan case

Cited by 120 publications

References 9 publications

The Crowding-Out Effects of Garbage Fees and Voluntary Source Separation Programs on Waste Reduction: Evidence from China

The Crowding-Out Effects of Garbage Fees and Voluntary Source Separation Programs on Waste Reduction: Evidence from China

Effects of Unit-Based Garbage Pricing: A Differences-in-Differences Approach

An EU Recycling Target: What Does the Dutch Evidence Tell Us?

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