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A Baseline Input—Output Model with Environmental Accounts (IOEA) Applied to E-Waste Recycling

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  • Taelim Choi

    (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

  • Randall W. Jackson

    (West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA, Randall.Jackson@mail.wvu.edu)

  • Nancey Green Leigh

    (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

  • Christa D. Jensen

    (West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA)

Abstract

This article reports the authors’ efforts to construct a baseline input—output (IO) model with environmental accounts for use in modeling geographically specific e-waste recycling systems. The authors address conceptual and practical issues that arise when recyclable end-of-life (EOL) commodities and related activities are incorporated into the traditional IO model including: (1) shortcomings of existing industry and commodity accounts that do not explicitly represent recycling activities and recyclable EOL products; (2) accounting challenges related to flows of EOL products observed mainly in physical volumes; and (3) valuing EOL products whose transactions prices vary widely. These three issues complicate the incorporation of EOL commodities within the conventional IO framework. The authors present a way to record the transactions of EOL products in both physical and monetary terms in an IO model with environmental accounts. Specifically, the authors present the case of e-waste recycling for the Atlanta metropolitan area (AMA) with an empirically based hypothetical scenario.

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  • Taelim Choi & Randall W. Jackson & Nancey Green Leigh & Christa D. Jensen, 2011. "A Baseline Input—Output Model with Environmental Accounts (IOEA) Applied to E-Waste Recycling," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 34(1), pages 3-33, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:inrsre:v:34:y:2011:i:1:p:3-33
    DOI: 10.1177/0160017610385453
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