The Organization and Efficiency of Residential Recycling Services

Carroll, Wayne

doi:10.4324/9781315240091-17

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“…In the south of Italy and the Islands, returns to scale decrease from zero to 400 billion kg per year, and there are constant returns to scale up to 600 billion kg. Carroll (1995) found constant economies of scale using in waste recycling of 4,468 tons per year in 57 municipalities in Winsconsin. Evidence of economies of scale was also found by Callan and Thomas (1997) in 324 towns in Massachusetts with the annual mean of 11,098 tons of recycling materials.…”

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“…Inter alia, various econometric methods have been applied to estimate cost functions of waste. Stevens (1978), Carroll (1995), Dubin and Navarro (1988) and Sorensen (2007), and Callan and Thomas (2001), among others, used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to estimate cost functions. Bohm et al (2010) used Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) methodology, while Zafra-Gómez et al 2013applied pooled OLS.…”

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“…The economies of scale (if any) in waste collection, disposal and recycling have also been addressed using estimated cost functions in previous empirical studies. In a study focused solely on recycling costs, Carroll (1995) found that average recycling costs per household in 1992 in 57 cities in Wisconsin (USA) were negatively correlated with a measure of population density. Moreover, no economies of scale were found.…”

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The Cost of Urban Waste Management: An Empirical Analysis of Recycling Patterns in Italy

Cialani

Mortazavi

2020

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Italy is facing high pressure to meet objectives to recycle waste and national waste management targets set by the European Union Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC; EC European Commission, 2008). However, waste collection and recycling waste costs pose major problems (addressed here) at municipal level for the Italian waste management system. The empirical literature on waste management has paid much more attention to demand-side aspects (reduction and discouragement of land disposal and promotion of recycling and recovery) than to supply-side issues such as analysis of waste management costs. This paper addresses the gap in this research field by estimating the cost function of providing waste collection and recycling services for Italian municipalities during the years 2011-2017. Specifically, we estimate cost elasticity and marginal costs to determine if there are economies of scale for recycling urban waste. Our findings suggest that increasing recycling rates would not substantially increase total costs for most of the municipalities, so recycling should be encouraged, especially for municipalities with low recycling rates. In particular, we observe that cost elasticity is higher in northern municipalities than in central and southern Italian municipalities. Our cost function exhibits economies of scale until a certain amount of recycled waste. The results provide insights into the cost structure of recycling that may lead to more efficient waste management.

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The Cost of Urban Waste Management: An Empirical Analysis of Recycling Patterns in Italy

Cialani

Mortazavi

2020

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…Previous studies have clarified the cost structure of municipal waste collection; for example, see Stevens (1977), Carroll (1995), Callan and Thomas (2001), and Dijkgraaf et al (2003). We focus on the municipal behavior of implementing recyclables collection because we cannot directly observe its cost structure.…”

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To introduce recycling or not: A panel data analysis in Japan

Usui

Kakamu

Chikasada

2015

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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“…No entanto, Bohm et al, (2010: 870), estimando funções de custos demonstraram haver economias de escalas em ambas as atividades, mas que desapareciam à medida que a participação da reciclagem era aumentada. Outros estudos fornecem extensas avaliações sobre economias de escalas no setor de RSU (ver Lavee e Khatib, 2010; Abrate et al, 2011;Carroll, 1995;Folz, 1999; Weng e Fugiwara, 2011; Bel e Fageda, 2010).…”

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Manso

Faria

2015

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This article has three aims: i) to carry out a current literature review of solid waste sector (MSW); ii) identify the main directions of studies of empirical and theoretical background, followed by modern research; iii) hierarchically them considering the economic scope, public policy, environmental management and operator system. This study was conducted by reviewing studies on the waste sector with content published in major international journals. The results seem to suggest there is no single standard approach in these studies, but contains key elements under the theoretical umbrella "cost" and "efficiency." The lack of literature on the production structure of the recycling sector is central issue in the current debate on MSW for convergence of approaches on account and economic costs, transaction costs, logistics, externalities and market failures. These questions is crucial to shed light to ways and scope of research on MSW at interdisciplinary and political discussions.

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The Organization and Efficiency of Residential Recycling Services

Cited by 9 publications

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The Cost of Urban Waste Management: An Empirical Analysis of Recycling Patterns in Italy

The Cost of Urban Waste Management: An Empirical Analysis of Recycling Patterns in Italy

To introduce recycling or not: A panel data analysis in Japan

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