Financing electronic waste recycling Californian households' willingness to pay advanced recycling fees

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 547-559

  Nixon, Hilary ^a   Saphores, Jean Daniel M ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic waste; Ordered logit; Principal components analysis; Recycling financing

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; WASTES;

CALIFORNIA; ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING; ELECTRONICS WASTES; MAIL SURVEYS; ORDERED LOGIT; PRINCIPAL-COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECYCLING FEE; RECYCLING FINANCING; RECYCLING RATE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ELECTRONIC WASTE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; EDUCATION; ELECTRONICS; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTAL MAIL; RECYCLING; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845792826     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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