In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved
complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives …

Solid waste management is a significant issue for sustainable development that involves the
technical, socioeconomic, legal, ecological, political, and even cultural components. For this …

This paper analyzes waste disposal, recycling and composting in a municipality in
southwest Sweden. In 1994, Varberg introduced a weight-based billing system for …

This paper examines some possibilities and limitations of linking economic information to an
life cycle assessment, LCA, when studying municipal waste management systems. A …

This paper analyzes households' perceptions of recycling activities in a municipality in
northern Sweden, Piteå. The purpose of the paper is to analyze whether moral motives …

This article investigates the dual role–exemplified by the ideal types of the consumer and the
citizen–individuals face in the contemporary environmental policy context. As crowding-out …

Households' recycling effort is often argued to be of an insignificant size. It is also frequently
argued that this contribution, if significant, is not a cost to households, since it is voluntary …

The main purpose of this paper is to provide aneconometric analysis of the most
importantdeterminants of inter-country differences inwaste paper recovery and utilization …

Governments sometimes try to increase individuals' contributions to public goods through
appeals to consumer responsibility, rather than by economic incentives, for example in …

The overall aim of the present study is to evaluate different strategies for treatment of solid
waste based on a life-cycle perspective. Important goals are to identify advantages and …