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Explaining the Performance of Mature Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Programs

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  • Jean Peretz
  • Bruce Tonn
  • David Folz

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This paper assesses the contextual, programmatic and decision-making factors that affect the performance of mature municipal solid waste recycling programs. Tobit models were prepared for cities with populations of less than or more than 25 000 to facilitate analysis of recycling performance. Recycling participation rates were found to be higher among cities in both groups that offered more convenient recycling programs and whose residents had a higher mean household income. The larger cities that achieved higher participation rates employed a decision-making process known as 'collaborative learning', imposed sanctions on improper sorting recyclable materials, and had a larger non-minority population. Among smaller cities, higher participation was attained by using variable fee pricing for solid waste collection and by mandating household participation. The study findings suggest that future research should focus on improved ways to characterize and measure the decision-making processes used to make policy changes in order to facilitate analysis of the causal and temporal relationships between decision-making processes and program performance.

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  • Jean Peretz & Bruce Tonn & David Folz, 2005. "Explaining the Performance of Mature Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Programs," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(5), pages 627-650.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:48:y:2005:i:5:p:627-650
    DOI: 10.1080/0964056050018170
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    1. Aphale, Omkar & Thyberg, Krista L. & Tonjes, David J., 2015. "Differences in waste generation, waste composition, and source separation across three waste districts in a New York suburb," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 19-28.
    2. Bohm, Robert A. & Folz, David H. & Kinnaman, Thomas C. & Podolsky, Michael J., 2010. "The costs of municipal waste and recycling programs," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 54(11), pages 864-871.
    3. Pollans, Lily Baum & Krones, Jonathan S. & Ben-Joseph, Eran, 2017. "Patterns in municipal food scrap programming in mid-sized U.S. cities," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 308-314.
    4. Brian Chi-ang Lin & Siqi Zheng & Ankinée Kirakozian, 2016. "One Without The Other? Behavioural And Incentive Policies For Household Waste Management," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 526-551, July.
    5. Ankinée Kirakozian, 2016. "The determinants of household recycling: social influence, public policies and environmental preferences," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(16), pages 1481-1503, April.

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