Policy Watch: Examining the Justification for Residential Recycling

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Explaining the variation in household recycling rates across the UK (2011, background): “Based on a number of studies (Hong, 1999; Van Houtven and Morris, 1999; and Dijkgraaf and Gradus, 2004 amongst others) Kinnaman (2006) asserts that only households that were initially recycling small amounts and faced low opportunity costs of recycling would respond significantly to unit-based…”
Waste Prevention and Social Preferences: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations (2014, background): “7 “Recycling is something parents and children feel good about, and for this reason households may be willing to pay for the mere opportunity to recycle” (Kinnaman, 2006, p. 222).”
Effects of Unit-Based Garbage Pricing: A Differences-in-Differences Approach (2010, unknown): “Kinnaman (2006 ) a ndKinnaman (2008) argue that the benefits from UBP are negligible, and that, in the United States at least, costs actually exceed benefits.”
The profiles of household solid waste recyclers and non-recyclers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2014, background): “Recycling reduces total disposed waste quantity, conserves natural resources, reduces demand for virgin materials, consumes less manufacturing energy, reduces environmental and economic costs, and health and environmental risks (Bolaane, 2006; Kinnaman, 2006; Martin, Williams, & Clark, 2006; Van den”