Policy for waste recycling.

Scrap prices, waste and recycling policy

This study examines the effect of waste and recycling policy on scrap prices and the importance of scrap price feedbacks as a determinate of the costs of waste and recycling policy. The effects of a deposit/refund, advance disposal fee, and recycling subsidies on scrap prices are derived, and the direct and indirect channels of waste reduction are decomposed for the three instruments. Scrap pri...

Willingness of end users to pay for e-waste recycling

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The sheer volume of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has presently been generated in Vietnam, posing a growing concern regarding its impact can have on the environment and human health. Therefore, the need for developing policies and regulations towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste is becoming crucial. Although the municipa...

Hazardous Waste Recycling

he 1980s brought changing trends into the waste market with increased reclamation, T recycling and waste minimization efforts. Adapting proven tcchnologies has aided in moving these three forms of waste managcment forward. A t EncycleITexas, Inc. (ETI), the fundamental objcctive of recycling is to convert hazardous waste into products. Founded in 1988, ET1 recycles metalbearing waste streams to...

Waste, poverty and recycling

Environmental hazards as a consequence of mass consumption and waste disposal remain largely unconsidered in affluent societies. Resources embodied in waste are not recognized. In Latin America, Asia and Africa, in particular, an extensive informal sector is involved in the collecting and separating of recyclable materials. This widespread activity provides an insight into the resourcefulness o...

Waste Heat Recycling for Fuel Reforming