Waste management and household effort: toward an enhanced ADF policy

Stéphanie Lemaitre (1) , Hubert Stahn (1)

1 GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille

Advanced Disposal Fees (ADF) are rather popular in waste management policies, but they cease any waste reduction effort at the household level. We propose a waved ADF policy which enhances this system by giving to the households the possibility to sign a waste reduction contract in counterpart of a lower fee. These contracts satisfy an incentive, a budget balancing and a participation constraints. For these feasible contracts, we show that this enriched ADF policy is welfare improving and always induces a waste reduction e¤ort.

Mots clés: Waste Management; Disposal Fee Policy; Household Effort; Contracts

Domaines: Economies et finances

Stéphanie Lemaitre, Hubert Stahn. Waste management and household effort: toward an enhanced ADF policy. 2009. ⟨halshs-00449537⟩