Estimation of garbage reduction and recycling promotion under the Containers and Packaging Recycling Law and garbage pricing

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 239-254

  Suwa, Tatsuo ^a   Usui, Takehiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Containers and packaging recycling law; Garbage pricing; Garbage reduction; Recycling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952768122     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03353959     Document Type: Article

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