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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Recycling Markets Disruptions
Author: Improving Recycling Markets
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264029583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Markets for many classes of recyclable materials are growing, but market failures and barriers are constraining some markets. This report presents the case for the use of 'industrial' policies which address such market failures and barriers.
Standby Revenue Recycling Authority to Deal with Petroleum Supply Disruptions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural TaxationPublisher:
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Why Do We Recycle?
Author: Frank AckermanPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597267880
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The earnest warnings of an impending "solid waste crisis" that permeated the 1980s provided the impetus for the widespread adoption of municipal recycling programs. Since that time America has witnessed a remarkable rise in public participation in recycling activities, including curbside collection, drop-off centers, and commercial and office programs. Recently, however, a backlash against these programs has developed. A vocal group of "anti-recyclers" has appeared, arguing that recycling is not an economically efficient strategy for addressing waste management problems. In Why Do We Recycle? Frank Ackerman examines the arguments for and against recycling, focusing on the debate surrounding the use of economic mechanisms to determine the value of recycling. Based on previously unpublished research conducted by the Tellus Institute, a nonprofit environmental research group in Boston, Massachusetts, Ackerman presents an alternative view of the theory of market incentives, challenging the notion that setting appropriate prices and allowing unfettered competition will result in the most efficient level of recycling. Among the topics he considers are: externality issues -- unit pricing for waste disposal, effluent taxes, virgin materials subsidies, advance disposal fees the landfill crisis and disposal facility siting container deposit ("bottle bill") legislation environmental issues that fall outside of market theory calculating costs and benefits of municipal recycling programs life-cycle analysis and packaging policy -- Germany's "Green Dot" packaging system and producer responsibility the impacts of production in extractive and manufacturing industries composting and organic waste management economics of conservation, and material use and long-term sustainability Ackerman explains why purely economic approaches to recycling are incomplete and argues for a different kind of decisionmaking, one that addresses social issues, future as well as present resource needs, and non-economic values that cannot be translated into dollars and cents. Backed by empirical data and replete with specific examples, the book offers valuable guidance for municipal planners, environmental managers, and policymakers responsible for establishing and implementing recycling programs. It is also an accessible introduction to the subject for faculty, students, and concerned citizens interested in the social, economic, and ethical underpinnings of recycling efforts.
National Recycling Markets
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and CompetitivenessPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Policy Brief - Recycling in the Circular Economy:
Author: Birgit Elin Munck-KampmannPublisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9289357703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Development of Recycling Markets
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous MaterialsPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Improving Recycling Markets
Author: Creating Markets
Author: Richard SchraderPublisher:
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Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Disruption
Author: Michael De GrootPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501774123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In Disruption, Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in the commodities markets; and the emergence of offshore financial markets. The superpowers had previously disseminated resources to their allies to enhance their own national security, but the disappearance of postwar conditions during the 1970s forced Washington and Moscow to choose between promoting their own economic interests and supporting their partners in Europe and Asia. De Groot shows that new unexpected macroeconomic imbalances in global capitalism sustained the West during the following decade. Rather than a creditor nation and net exporter, as it had been during the postwar period, the United States became a net importer of capital and goods during the 1980s that helped fund public spending, stimulated economic activity, and lubricated the private sector. The United States could now live beyond its means and continue waging the Cold War, and its allies benefited from access to the booming US market and the strengthened US military umbrella. As Disruption demonstrates, a new symbiotic economic architecture powered the West, but the Eastern European regimes increasingly became a burden to the Soviet Union. They were drowning in debt, and the Kremlin no longer had the resources to rescue them.