Policies for green design
Journal Article
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· Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Economics
- Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
A simple general equilibrium model is used to analyze disposal-content fees, subsidies for recyclable designs, unit-pricing of household disposal, deposit-refund systems, and manufacturer take-back requirements. Firms use primary and recycled inputs to produce output that has two attributes: packaging per unit output, and recyclability. If households pay the social cost of disposal, then they send the right signals to producers to reduce packaging and to design products that can more easily be recycled. If garbage is collected for free, then socially optimum attributes can still be achieved by a tax on producers` use of packaging and subsidy to recyclable designs.
- OSTI ID:
- 659029
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 36; ISSN 0095-0696; ISSN JEEMDI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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