Effecten van diftar op inzameling huishoudelijk afval

The unit-based pricing (UBP) of residential solid waste collection has been implemented in many parts of the world, including municipalities in the United States, the EU, Japan and South Korea. The key questions that policymakers seek a response to are: Does UBP reduce quantities of waste and increase recycling, and if so, by how much? In most papers conducted to date this question is answered by estimating price elasticity for unsorted waste (and a cross-price elasticity for recycled waste). In a paper, published in Resource and Energy Economics, researchers at VU University Amsterdam seek to fill the gap in the literature on the effects of UBP by conducting a meta-regression analysis.
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