| Author: | Ley, E. Macauley, M. Salant, S. |
| Title: | Restricting the trash trade |
| Journal: | American Economic Review
2000 : MAY, VOL. 90:2, p. 243-246 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS TRADE WASTE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In early 1999, the mayor of New York City announced a plan for exporting most of his city's waste to other states. The responses escalated an already growing war of words about interstate waste shipments. A pennsylvania state legislator bluntly called the mayor's plan 'irresponsible' and the governor of New Jersey labeled it 'a direct assault' on her state. A spokesperson of New York City's Department of Sanitation coolly staked out the City's position: "You can't stop interstate commerce...If Virginia is the least expensive place to deliver this solid waste, then that is where it is going to go." |
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