Nine articles by economists Fullerton (U. of Texas-Austin) and Kinnaman (Bucknell U.), or by one or the other and another author, are reprinted from publication in journals or other anthologies between 1995 and 2000, and joined by one previously unpublished one. Among the aspects of solid waste economics they pick through are residential solid waste management, how a fee per-unit garbage affects aggregate recycling in a model with heterogeneous households, and presumptive tax and environmental subsidy. They do not provide a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental behavioural economics is a growing field of research, yet investigation in this area concentrates mostly on energy savings or pollution reduction. The authors highlight the importance of the role of waste management, analysing the effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives and motivations, and explores the complex interplay between motivations, recycling, minimisation and waste policies to affect consumer behaviour. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of waste management and environmental economics.

"20 Scott J. Callan and Janet M. Thomas (1997), 'The Impact of State and Local Policies on the Recycling Effort', Eastern Economic Journal, 23, pp. 411-23"--"21 Karen Palmer, Hilary Sigman and Margaret Walls (1997), 'The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 33, pp. 128-50"--"22 Kelly H. Tiller, Paul M. Jakus and William M. Park (1997), 'Household Willingness to Pay for Dropoff Recycling', Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 22, pp. 310-20"--"23 Deborah Vaughn Nestor and Michael J. Podolsky (1998), 'Assessing Incentive- Based Environmental Policies for Reducing Household Waste Disposal', Contemporary Economic Policy, 16, pp. 401-11" -- "24 Michael J. Podolsky and Menahem Spiegel (1998), 'Municipal Waste Disposal: Unit Pricing and Recycling Opportunities', Public Works Management and Policy, 3, pp. 27-39" -- "25 Natalie Tawil (1999), 'Flow Control and Rent Capture in Solid Waste Management', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 37, pp. 183-201" -- "26 Thomas C. Kinnaman and Don Fullerton (2000), 'Garbage and Recycling with Endogenous Local Policy', Journal of Urban Economics, 48, pp. 419-42

The growing solid waste stream is a looming environmental problem as many communities in the United States ans Europe face a shortage of disposal capacity.

As "business as usual" has become the mantra of today's world, it's unlikely to see a decrease in hazardous waste generated from greater economic growth. Written by renowned experts, the book suggests a solution, supported by theoretical arguments to this waste problem. The book discusses how main problems for waste management can be addressed through appropriate policies adopted by governments in OECD countries. The book also raises thoughtful questions on how household waste management services should be privatized and who should pay for the disposal and recycling costs. It attempts to answer these questions. The book considers several factors hindering the first-best optimal outcome and highlights two crucial ones. It elaborates further with models and the solutions on how to overcome these obstacles. The book covers not only traditional resource economics and waste management, but also the recent problem of Electric waste (E-waste) and illustrates in details, how the environments of developing countries are inevitably polluted even with the Basel ban Amendment in place. The book proposes an alternative international trading regulation to address E-waste. This book will certainly appeal to industry decision-makers, policy makers and legislators.