Households’ perceptions of private sector municipal solid waste management services: A binary choice analysis

Ezebilo, Eugene E.; Animasaun, Emmanuel D

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“…The citizens' participation in the life-cycle of packaging waste is important for the efficiency and effectiveness of recycling, especially in Romania where the selective collection is quite recent (and coverage is still very low). All the stakeholders involved in the recycling process are important to its success and economic sustainability (Ezebilo and Animasaun 2011). …”

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Packaging waste recycling in Europe: Is the industry paying for it?

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This paper describes and examines the schemes established in five EU countries for the recycling of packaging waste. The changes in packaging waste management were mainly implemented since the Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste entered into force. The analysis of the five systems allowed the authors to identify very different approaches to cope with the same problem: meet the recovery and recycling targets imposed by EU law. Packaging waste is a responsibility of the industry. However, local governments are generally in charge of waste management, particularly in countries with Green Dot schemes or similar extended producer responsibility systems. This leads to the need of establishing a system of financial transfers between the industry and the local governments (particularly regarding the extra costs involved with selective collection and sorting). Using the same methodological approach, the authors also compare the costs and benefits of recycling from the perspective of local public authorities for France, Portugal and Romania. Since the purpose of the current paper is to take note of who is paying for the incremental costs of recycling and whether the industry (i.e. the consumer) is paying for the net financial costs of packaging waste management, environmental impacts are not included in the analysis. The work carried out in this paper highlights some aspects that are prone to be improved and raises several questions that will require further research. In the three countries analyzed more closely in this paper the industry is not paying the net financial cost of packaging waste management. In fact, if the savings attained by diverting packaging waste from other treatment (e.g. landfilling) and the public subsidies to the investment on the "recycling system" are not considered, it seems that the industry should increase the financial support to local authorities (by 125% in France, 50%in Portugal and 170% in Romania). However, in France and Portugal the industry is paying local authorities more than just the incremental costs of recycling (full costs of selective collection and sorting minus the avoided costs). To provide a more definitive judgment on the fairness of the systems it will be necessary to assess the cost efficiency of waste management operators (and judge whether operators are claiming costs or eliciting "prices").

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Packaging waste recycling in Europe: Is the industry paying for it?

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“…The three delineated areas are mixed in terms of income groups. For example, there are some pockets of high-income neighbourhoods in the 'indigenous' part of the city, as well as pockets of low-income neighbourhoods in the 'government reservation area' part of the city (Ezebilo and Animasaun 2011). Various types of human activities thrive in Ilorin.…”

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Willingness to pay for improved residential waste management in a developing country

Ezebilo

2013

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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In most developing countries policies and frameworks that govern solid waste management strategies have often been directed at the waste management service providers and less attention is often given to the demand side of the problem. This paper reports a study regarding householders' willingness to pay for improved residential solid waste management. The data for the study originated from a contingent valuation survey that was conducted in 236 households in Ilorin city in Kwara State, Nigeria. A binary logit model was used to account for some factors influencing the respondents' willingness to pay. The results show that more than 80 % of the respondents were in support of the residential waste management. The respondents were willing to pay an average of 3,660 Nigerian Naira (US $24) each year. Income, education, dwelling type and whether the respondent is satisfied with private sector participation in provision of waste management service positively influenced the respondents' willingness to pay. The price, gender, household size and activities of sanitary inspectors had negative influence. The findings from this study could contribute to the knowledge regarding the design of a more sustainable residential waste management strategy in Nigeria and other countries that have similar conditions.

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“…Compactor systems are less effective in developing cities, where household garbage is mostly composed of organic waste, which is hardly compactable. Other studies pointed to the households as a key stakeholder in waste collection and their limited willingness (resulting to some extent from the lack of awareness) and their limited capacity to pay for the service (Ezebilo and Animasaun 2011;Kaseva and Mbuligwe 2005;Kassim and Ali 2006;Tilaye and van Dijk 2014). In Dar es Salaam, for example, franchised private companies were discouraged to work in poor neighbourhoods where fee collection rates were lower than in high-income areas (Kirama and Mayo 2016).…”

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Hunting for tonnage: waste workers’ incentives in a public-private partnership in Bafoussam, Cameroon

Kakeu–Tardy

Véron

2019

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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Households’ perceptions of private sector municipal solid waste management services: A binary choice analysis

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

Packaging waste recycling in Europe: Is the industry paying for it?

Packaging waste recycling in Europe: Is the industry paying for it?

Willingness to pay for improved residential waste management in a developing country

Hunting for tonnage: waste workers’ incentives in a public-private partnership in Bafoussam, Cameroon

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