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Fostering Recycling Participation in Wisconsin Households through Single-Stream Programs

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  • Jason Bell
  • Joel Huber
  • W. Kip Viscusi

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Single-stream recycling enables households to recycle an unsorted mix of cans, plastic, glass, and paper, thereby reducing recycling costs. The expansion of single-stream recycling in Wisconsin provides a natural experiment to assess the extent to which single-stream increases recycling behavior. Using a longitudinal database that matches household recycling participation to county-level recycling policies from Wisconsin, we identify respondent and county characteristics that promote recycling. The results of both fixed-effects regressions and a differences-in-differences analysis demonstrate that single-stream programs increase recycling within households. The shift from dual-stream to single-stream has benefits exceeding costs.

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  • Jason Bell & Joel Huber & W. Kip Viscusi, 2017. "Fostering Recycling Participation in Wisconsin Households through Single-Stream Programs," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 93(3), pages 481-502.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:93:y:2017:i:3:p:481-502
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.93.3.481
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    Cited by:

    1. Olivier Beaumais & Apolline Niérat, 2019. "Exploring in-depth joint pro-environmental behaviors: a multivariate ordered probit approach," Working Papers hal-02361390, HAL.
    2. W. Kip Viscusi, 2022. "Efficiency criteria for nudges and norms," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 191(3), pages 465-482, June.
    3. Ana La Rosa & Jennifer Johnson Jorgensen, 2021. "Influences on Consumer Engagement with Sustainability and the Purchase Intention of Apparel Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-15, September.
    4. Omer Bafail, 2022. "A DEMATEL Framework for Modeling Cause-and-Effect Relationships of Inbound Contamination in Single-Stream Recycling Programs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-18, August.
    5. Gionata Castaldi & Grazia Cecere & Mariangela Zoli, 2021. "“Smoke on the beach”: on the use of economic vs behavioral policies to reduce environmental pollution by cigarette littering," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 38(3), pages 1025-1048, October.
    6. Costantino Berardocco & Hannah Delawter & Thomas Putzu & Larson Curtis Wolfe & Hao Zhang, 2022. "Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Single Stream and Multi-Stream Waste Recycling Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-16, December.
    7. Viscusi, W. Kip & Huber, Joel & Bell, Jason, 2023. "Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).

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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

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