A Comprehensive Evaluation of Variable Rate Pricing Policy for Solid Waste Management

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  • Oshima Katsuya
    Doctoral Program in Policy and Planning Sciences, Tsukuba University
  • Yasuda Yasoi
    Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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  • 廃棄物処理有料化政策の有効性の総合評価
  • ハイキブツ ショリ ユウリョウカ セイサク ノ ユウコウセイ ノ ソウゴウ ヒョウカ

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This is a study of a “Variable Rate Pricing Policy for Waste Management”. In our study, “The Fee System” means that residents should pay the waste management fee in proportion to the amount of waste they discard. In our theoretical analysis, from the point of view of microeconomics, we constructed a three-factor consumer behavior model made up of traditional waste management service, resource recovery service and a compound factor. We derived an ordinary demand curve of traditional waste management service and resource recovery service, by applying utility maximization theory, including a waste generation function. Next we constructed a benefit analysis method with this demand function by applying the method of welfare economics, within the cost of time for residents. As our case study location we used the Hitachi-Ohta district, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. In the time series analysis, we derived 103 yen per capita per year as a net economic benefit in executing The Fee System in this area, from October 1992. We also showed that residents took notice of the resource recovery service. It was also shown that for the year of introduction, the city became one in which waste was easily reduced.

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