Environmental Policy with Collective Waste Disposal

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dc.creatorHamilton, Stephen F.
dc.creatorSproul, Thomas W.
dc.creatorSunding, David
dc.creatorZilberman, David
dc.date2017-08-04T13:45:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T07:12:09Z
dc.descriptionCentralized collection and disposal is an integral component of waste management strategies for many solid and liquid wastes, and carbon capture and storage is currently being considered for gaseous waste. In this paper we show how collective waste disposal systems introduce essential changes in the design of optimal environmental policy. Absent collective disposal, an optimal environmental policy imposes relatively stringent regulations on polluters in regions where local environmental damage functions are “high”; however, under collective waste disposal, the optimal environmental policy level increases monotonically over distance from the disposal site, and this is true irrespective of the degree of spatial heterogeneity in local environmental damage functions. We characterize the optimal spatial pattern of environmental policy levels under collective waste disposal and identify optimal membership size for waste disposal networks comprised of homogeneous producers.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.151142
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151142/files/Waste.Disposal_AAEA.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151142
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/585642
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151142
dc.titleEnvironmental Policy with Collective Waste Disposal
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