Two aspects of waste management from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 4, 337-341

Abstract: Regulations specify the maximum amount of waste that can be stored on site by a waste generating firm. When this regulatory threshold is reached, a polluting firm must move its on site waste to an off site recipient. In this setting, we analyse two questions in a stochastic framework from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient that have received scant theoretical attention in the literature. First, given that off site storage is costlier than on site storage, we derive the long-run average cost incurred by a waste generating firm that stores waste both on and off site. Second, we compute the expected amount of time until the off site recipient's waste storage facility is full.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850601018528

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