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Waste Recycling Policies Under Extended Producer Responsibility: Take-Back Mandate Versus Deposit-Refund

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  • TSUNG-HSIU TSAI

    (Department of Applied Economics, National Kaohsiung University, 700 Kaohsiung University Road, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan)

  • SHIH-JYE WU

    (Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)

  • HONG HWANG

    (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University and RCHSS, Academia Sinica; 21 Hsu Chow Road, Taipei 10055, Taiwan)

Abstract

Take-back mandate and deposit-refund are the most two established waste recycling policies that are consistent with the extended producer responsibility (EPR) principle. In the take-back mandate, manufacturers have to achieve a mandatory recycling target set up by the authority. In the deposit-refund, manufacturers pay a waste disposal fee (or an output tax) to the authority, which then uses the fee to subsidize the recycling sector. This paper compares these two policies and finds that their relative performance in terms of recycling rate is crucially dependent on the recycling technological efficiency. The recycling rate is higher (lower) under the deposit-refund than the take-back mandate if recycling is relatively efficient (inefficient).

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  • Tsung-Hsiu Tsai & Shih-Jye Wu & Hong Hwang, 2013. "Waste Recycling Policies Under Extended Producer Responsibility: Take-Back Mandate Versus Deposit-Refund," Global Journal of Economics (GJE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(02), pages 1-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:gjexxx:v:02:y:2013:i:02:n:s2251361213500055
    DOI: 10.1142/S2251361213500055
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    Cited by:

    1. Asuncion Arner Guerre, 2022. "The Extended Producer Responsibility for Waste Oils," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 12(2), pages 210-217, March.
    2. Yasuyuki Sugiyama & Patcharin Koonsed, 2017. "Environmental R&D, imperfectly competitive recycling market, and recycled content standards," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(4), pages 2970-2979.
    3. Arner Güerre, Asunción, 2018. "La eficiencia de la responsabilidad ampliada del productor en la gestión de aceites usados con diferenciación del producto/The Efficiency of Extended Producer Responsibility in Waste Oil Management wi," Estudios de Economia Aplicada, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 36, pages 789-810, Septiembr.

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    Keywords

    Extended producer responsibility; take-back mandate; deposit-refund and recycling rates; Q53; Q58;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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