Household Responses to Price Incentives for Recycling: Some Further Evidence

Seonghoon Hong and Richard M. Adams

Land Economics, 1999, vol. 75, issue 4, 505-514

Abstract: This paper investigates the role of waste disposal service fees and household characteristics in determining recycling rates and waste generation. Using individual household data from Portland, Oregon, we model a multistage household decision process regarding waste generation and recycling effort under a block pricing system, including the choice of container size and reduced-form demand equations for recyclables, non-recyclables, and recycling rate. The choice of container size is not affected by the price of waste disposal services, but within a given container size, households respond to a price increase by increasing recycling to avoid charges for waste generation above contracted volumes.

JEL-codes: Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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