L’effet des prix et des systèmes de tarification sur les quantités de déchets résidentiels: le cas de la Wallonie

Axel Gautier and Iman Salem

Revue économique, 2021, vol. 72, issue 6, 1023-1053

Abstract: Price and non-price instruments are increasingly used to encourage households to reduce their waste and to increase sorting and recycling. In this paper, we test the effectiveness of these instruments using a recent complete panel dataset of the entire municipalities in Wallonia (Belgium). The municipalities are responsible for the implementation of the waste policy in a common regional framework and, interestingly, they have to make decisions regarding the price level, the pricing unit, and the waste streams collected at the curbside. Using a fixed effects panel two-step GMM, we show that curbside collection of organic waste reduces residual waste but also reduces the household sensitivity to prices. We also find that the weight-based pricing system has a significant impact on the reduction of residual waste, an effect that is increasing in the long-run, on the improvement of sorting and on the effectiveness of the price instruments.

Keywords: waste management; residential waste; marginal pricing; unit-based pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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