Toward waste management contracts

Stéphanie Lemaitre (1) , Hubert Stahn (1)

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

This paper deals with the cost of treatment of the ultimate waste, that is waste which cannot, in the absence of recycling opportunities, be reduced by a suitable taxation scheme. We propose a new way to handle this waste based on aWaste Management Contracts (WMC) which largely implicates the households in the cost reduction process. Within a set of feasible, i.e. budget balancing, incentive compatible and acceptable, contracts we characterize the optimal WMC and compare this system to a more standard one based on an Advanced and a Disposal Fee

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

Domaines: Economies et finances

Stéphanie Lemaitre, Hubert Stahn. Toward waste management contracts. 2010. ⟨halshs-00449538⟩