Two aspects of waste management from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient

A. Batabyal, P. Nijkamp

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Abstract

Regulations specify the maximum amount of waste that can be stored on site by a waste generating firm. When this regulatory threshold is reached, a polluting firm must move its on site waste to an off site recipient. In this setting, we analyse two questions in a stochastic framework from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient that have received scant theoretical attention in the literature. First, given that off site storage is costlier than on site storage, we derive the long-run average cost incurred by a waste generating firm that stores waste both on and off site. Second, we compute the expected amount of time until the off site recipient's waste storage facility is full.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)337-341
JournalApplied Economics Letters
Volume16
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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