Why do we recycle
markets, values, and public policy
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Author
Publication
1997 - Island Press, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhydowerecyclema00acke
- ISBN-101559635045
- ISBN-101559635053
- ISBN-139781559635042
- ISBN-139781559635059
Classifications
- DDC338.4/33637282
- LCCHD4482 .A27 1997
Description
In Why Do We Recycle? Frank Ackerman examines the arguments for and against recycling, focusing on the debate surrounding the use of economic mechanisms to determine the value of recycling. Based on previously unpublished research conducted by the Tellus Institute, a nonprofit environmental research group in Boston, Massachusetts, Ackerman presents an alternative view of the theory of market incentives, challenging the notion that setting appropriate prices and allowing unfettered competition will result in the most efficient level of recycling. He explains why purely economic approaches to recycling are incomplete and argues for a different kind of decisionmaking, one that addresses social issues, future as well as present resource needs, and noneconomic values that cannot be translated into dollars and cents.
First Sentence
Let me begin with a confession.
Excerpt
Let me begin with a confession.
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- Why do we recycle: markets, values, and public policy
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