An evaluation of French municipal solid waste pricing system

Houévoh Gnonlonfin ()

No 2016.18, Working Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: This study investigates the preventive effect and substitution effect of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) pricing policy in France. We examine the relationship between quantities of MSW and incentive taxes with the use of a panel of 96 French metropolitan departments between 2005 and 2011, and we use panel data and Heckman two-step estimation in order to consider sample selection. We perform the analysis for the collection of MSW and six technologies of management of the waste, namely recycling materials, composting, incineration with and without energy recovery, landfilling and dumping. We estimate the elasticity of the collection of MSW and the elasticity of these technologies in relation to three incentive taxes of the French pricing system by considering the endogeneity of municipality’s decisions about both local incentive tax and technology choice. The results confirm that the French MSW pricing system has a preventive and a substitution effect and show that these effects are complementary.

Keywords: municipal solid waste pricing system; user fee; Extend Producer Responsibility; tax on elimination; preventive effect; substitution effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 H23 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2016-05
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