Municipal Waste Collection: Market Competition and the EU Policy

Carlo Reggiani and Francesco Silvestri

No 230598, Climate Change and Sustainable Development from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Sufficiency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers, with possible undesirable consequences for other firms in the vertical chain. We show through a simple spatial model that one effect of the Proximity Principle and Self-Sufficiency Principle is to provide an incentive to collectors and waste producers to increase the amount of separated waste.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2016-02-02
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/230598/files/NDL2015-090.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Municipal Waste Collection: Market Competition and the EU Policy (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:feemcl:230598

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.230598

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Climate Change and Sustainable Development from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().