The market-incentive recycling system for waste packaging containers in Taiwan |
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Authors: | Yunchang Jeffrey Bor Yu-Lan Chien Esher Hsu |
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Institution: | a Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, 75 Chang-Hsing Street, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC;b Institute of Natural Resource Management, National Taipei University, Taipei 104, Taiwan, ROC;c Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, Taipei 104, Taiwan, ROC |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a new market-incentive (MI) system to recycle waste-packaging containers in Taiwan. Since most used packaging containers have no or insufficient market value, the government imposes a combined product charge and subsidy policy to provide enough economic incentive for recycling various kinds of packaging containers, such as iron, aluminum, paper, glass and plastic. Empirical results show that the new MI approach has stimulated and established the recycling market for waste-packaging containers. The new recycling system has provided 18,356 employment opportunities and generated NT$ 6.97 billion in real-production value and NT$ 3.18 billion in real GDP during the 1998 survey year. Cost-effectiveness analysis constitutes the theoretical foundation of the new scheme, whereas data used to compute empirical product charge are from two sources: marketing surveys of internal conventional costs of solid-waste collection, disposal and recycling in Taiwan, and benefit transfer of external environmental costs in the United States. The new recycling policy designed by the authors provides a reasonable solution for solid-waste management in a country with limited land resources such as Taiwan. |
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Keywords: | Recycling system Market-incentive policy Product charge and subsidy Waste-packaging containers Taiwan |
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