Who Creates Waste? Different Perspectives on Waste Attribution in a Regional Economy

Christa Court, Stuart McIntyre, Max Munday () and Karen Turner
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Max Munday: Cardiff Business School

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Abstract: We use a regional input output (IO) framework and data derived on waste generation by industry to examine regional accountability. In addition to estimating a series of industry waste-output coefficients, the paper considers a series of methods for waste attribution, and practical use for policymakers. The paper first considers perspectives on attribution of domestic waste generation using basic Type I and Type II industry multipliers, and also compares these with multipliers derived from a trade endogenised linear attribution system (TELAS) which permits a greater focus on private and public final consumption as the main exogenous driver of waste generation in the domestic economy. Second, it uses a domestic technology assumption (DTA) to consider what Wales’s ‘waste footprint’ would be if it had to meet all its consumption requirements through domestic production.

Keywords: waste attribution; regional economy; input-output; Wales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C67 Q01 Q53 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2009
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