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| Author: | Fullerton, D. Kinnaman, T. |
| Title: | Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag |
| Journal: | American Economic Review
1996 : SEP, VOL. 86:4, p. 971-984 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS PRICING HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The average tipping fee paid by garbage collectors to landfills has tripled over a six-year period, largely due to rising land prices and new EPA regulations. Several communities and private firms have responded to these economic pressures by implementing volume-based pricing programs that require households to pay for each bag or can of garbage presented for collection. These towns employ unit pricing not only for additional revenue, but to reduce their direct costs and external costs from using landfills and incinerators. |
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