THE ECONOMICS OF SOLID WASTE REDUCTION

The Impact of User Fees

New Horizons in Environmental Economics series

Robin R. Jenkins, US EPA Headquarters, Washington, DC, US

This important new book addresses a major policy question regarding the solid waste crisis: should municipalities charge households user fees for solid waste services? In her study of this issue, Professor Jenkins draws on a unique data set which relates the quantities of waste discarded and the prices charged to households for waste services in nine US communities.

‘In this admirable volume Jenkins utilises a unique data set relating to waste generation, composition, and collection in a range of communities in the US, in order to investigate the efficacy of user fees. . . a clearly written and technically competent piece of applied environmental economics, it is to be recommended.’
– R.K. Turner, The Economic Journal